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  • David Petrakis My Lab Partner is thrilled-anatomy at last.†   (source)
  • Gray's Anatomy was open by a folio pad of his own drawings.†   (source)
  • He went over biology, microbiology, anatomy, and physiology.†   (source)
  • God, I understand whale anatomy.†   (source)
  • "If I'm not mistaken," said Miss Ryan, "there are no breasts on our anatomy model."†   (source)
  • Dumbo is training to be the squad medic, so he has to dissect designated corpses, usually Teds, to learn about human anatomy.†   (source)
  • Male, he presumed, though with the limited knowledge of the fairy anatomy he supposed it could be female.†   (source)
  • There's The Anatomy Lesson, and we do have to see that, but what I really want to see is one tiny, rare piece by a painter who was Vermeer's teacher.†   (source)
  • My arena of literal expression offered four avenues to the topic of elimination, two references to human anatomy, one request for divine imprecation, one standard description of or request for coitus, and a coital variation which was no longer an option for me since my mother was deeeased.†   (source)
  • Or anatomy?†   (source)
  • He was knowledgeable in all the sciences: botany, astronomy, psychology, anatomy, alchemy, geology, chemistry.... He was portly, with twinkling eyes that moved quickly from one thing to another.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately the lecture was on cellular anatomy, something I'd already studied.†   (source)
  • He says, with confidence, after repeated examinations, of all my anatomy, that I have no organic trouble and that I may reasonably expect under favorable circumstances to keep at work for several years to come.†   (source)
  • The new view of man also manifested itself in an interest in the human anatomy.†   (source)
  • Black corpses were routinely exhumed from graves for research, and an under ground shipping industry kept schools in the North supplied with black bodies from the South for anatomy courses.†   (source)
  • He would hear a trap snap shut in the middle of the night, and then instead of silence he would hear piliable squeaking and thrashing, whacking noises as the stricken rodent tried to drag itself back to safety with a trap snapped over some part of its anatomy, usually its head.†   (source)
  • Now, you'd think I would've gotten used to weird anatomy after Janus and Briares, but this guy was three complete people.†   (source)
  • A few months earlier, I had been sitting in my biology class—I was the only sophomore to ever take Advanced Placement Biology at Toppenish High School—starting lessons about anatomy and the reproductive system.†   (source)
  • He devoured texts on geography, biology, anatomy, philosophy, and mathematics, as well as memoirs, biographies, and histories.†   (source)
  • On the few occasions when they couldn't make a particular movement, they went next door to the UCSF anatomy department, where a surgeon they knew would stick them with a needle and electrically stimulate the recalcitrant muscle.†   (source)
  • When we were back in Buddy's room, which reminded me of nothing so much as a monk's cell, with its bare walls and bare bed and bare floor and the desk loaded with Gray's Anatomy and other thick gruesome books, Buddy lit a candle and uncorked a bottle of Dubonnet.†   (source)
  • More nervous than in his first anatomy class, the body of a young boy peeled open to reveal its secrets.†   (source)
  • A year older than Denise, she was taller, thinner, paler, both worldly and ethereal, as though in her heart she was not a travel writer at all, as her mother had said she wished to be, but simply a traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling, but does not care to record them.†   (source)
  • As Adam squatted down slowly, the angry, swarming ants rose up to meet his anatomy, climbing on top of each other into a pyramid of defense.†   (source)
  • Via diagrams he introduced me to my anatomy; he drew the little egg going down its hour glass into the sticky pocket of the uterus.†   (source)
  • One reason women die in childbirth has to do with anatomy, arising from two basic evolutionary trade-offs.†   (source)
  • The couples who huddled in the library behind oversize anatomy atlases and whispered themselves into the notions of love amused her.†   (source)
  • Remo and I got a B+ for our cell-anatomy diorama, which was more than I thought we would get considering I spent as little time on that project as possible.†   (source)
  • Actually, Dick's neck was not the part of his anatomy that most immediately troubled him†   (source)
  • She held up her hands-impeccably manicured, naturally-as if I needed a visual aid for this basic part of human anatomy.†   (source)
  • Fingering her strong, healthy orb, that most splendid of rings called by doctors the sphincter, he suddenly felt her fingers on the corresponding part of his own anatomy.†   (source)
  • there goes hearing, and often ability to open both eyes, etc. even hydrocephalus is often due to inflammatory debris blocking the foramina...it's anatomy, my friend.†   (source)
  • My first lecture each morning was anatomy.†   (source)
  • Leonardo's exercises in anatomy proved indispensable.†   (source)
  • Maggie Oliver and I were enjoying a glass of Yellow Tail and a TiVo'd Grey's Anatomy when there was a knock on the door.†   (source)
  • After all, hadn't she quite enjoyed that lecture on anatomy she had attended?†   (source)
  • These parts of his anatomy were harder than steel and made an adult lymrill truly formidable.†   (source)
  • But avian anatomy, plus recombinant-DNA theory, plus the picture of the Gasman...†   (source)
  • They were grateful for the donated books, because they only had ten of the textbooks required for the advanced anatomy course, Mortenson learned.†   (source)
  • And human anatomy, I see, and Euclid's Geometry, or are you just recopying the text?†   (source)
  • Your mother is a moer"—moer being a vulgar term for an intimate part of a woman's anatomy.†   (source)
  • She already knew that the killer was obsessed with bones and knew his anatomy well.†   (source)
  • Oh yeah, I remember human anatomy.†   (source)
  • volume of Dante entitled Vita Nuova-Rime; and an extraordinary short English pornographic novella (that Alessandro read even before he unpacked) in which a barely disguised Prince of Wales traveled to Paris to spend time in a warm pool with half a dozen of the worlds most beautiful and licentious women, exploring with every part of his anatomy every part of theirs as they did the same for him and among themselves.†   (source)
  • So, I signed up for the class "Human Anatomy and Physiology 101.†   (source)
  • "I know anatomy," she said.†   (source)
  • GEORGE (Quietly) Alas, Martha, in reality it works out that the sacrifice is usually of a somewhat more private portion of the anatomy.†   (source)
  • They say that his grasp of the material at his oral exam extracted the grudging admiration of even the grimmest and most savage of the examiners, and they also say that after Dr. Mandour, the celebrated professor of anatomy, had finished examining Hisham, he stood up, went over to him, shook his hand, and ordered him a cold drink (a gesture of respect rarely granted anyone by the great professor).†   (source)
  • I've completed a thorough survey of your gross physiology and anatomy and am doing a chemical survey and interaction modeling.†   (source)
  • I had very briefly observed the doctor conducting such an examination, but my knowledge was relegated to the little I could remember of anatomy texts, with nothing of the practical.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed their awed expressions: I wonder if he knows the exact anatomy and physiology of every creature on earth.†   (source)
  • When he saw me producing scores of varieties and thousands of individual worms and cysts from various parts of caribou anatomy, he was greatly surprised.†   (source)
  • He knew about as much as was known about the anatomy of the brain and the symptoms and severities of lesion and thrombus.†   (source)
  • He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.†   (source)
  • Now bound into a volume called KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS—published by the Polish state museum maintained today at the camp—this anatomy of Hoss's psyche is available for examination by all those who might thirst for knowledge about the true nature of evil.†   (source)
  • She got an "A" in her anatomy class.
  • The Anatomy Lesson was in the same book actually, but it scared the pants off me.†   (source)
  • When she wrote, "I went to the library today to get the anatomy book I told you about.†   (source)
  • Moving was a lesson in punitive anatomy.†   (source)
  • Unlike you, the target was a little higher up in the anatomy.†   (source)
  • New courses on hospital nursing and preliminary anatomy began.†   (source)
  • Of the paintings she'd mentioned, The Anatomy Lesson was the only one I knew.†   (source)
  • The Anatomy Lesson was in the same book actually but it scared the pants off me.†   (source)
  • The soul slid smoothly into the offered space, weaving herself into the alien anatomy.†   (source)
  • But the map shapes escaped him now, the precise silhouettes of those nestled anatomies.†   (source)
  • You know those anatomy exhibits where they show dead bodies without skin?†   (source)
  • I know it's dumb, but I've always wondered how much anatomy you had to study.†   (source)
  • Our anatomy textbook was nearly too heavy to hold.†   (source)
  • Halfway through my second year, I learned that Genet had again missed a few anatomy lab sessions.†   (source)
  • The second surprise was the book under Shiva's precious Gray's Anatomy.†   (source)
  • I guess I'll return the favor upon your anatomy.†   (source)
  • "jigaboo," contracting cancer in that symbolic portion of his anatomy.†   (source)
  • Eragon limped to Saphira's side, where he examined the crimson wound, glad that Oromis had given him so many scrolls on anatomy to read.†   (source)
  • Found bodies went to the morgue; if unclaimed, they traveled next to the dissection amphitheater at Rush Medical College or perhaps Cook County Hospital and from there to the articulation laboratory for the delicate task of picking flesh and connective tissue from the bones and skull, washing all with bleach, and remounting same for the subsequent use of doctors, anatomy museums, and the occasional private collector of scientific novelties.†   (source)
  • Designed by Da Vinci in 1495 as an outgrowth of his earliest anatomy and kinesiology studies, the internal mechanism of the robot knight possessed accurate joints and tendons, and was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing an anatomically correct jaw.†   (source)
  • Despite how he could dissect it—the vessels of the globe of my eye, the surgical anatomy of my nasal fossae, the light tincture of my epidermis—he could not avoid them, the lips he had once kissed.†   (source)
  • Thus dwarf anatomy ensured that all gas was passed below, actually aiding in the expulsion of unwanted clay.†   (source)
  • I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy.†   (source)
  • I forget what the prize was, but I could just see Buddy in his white coat with his stethoscope sticking out of a side pocket like part of his anatomy, smiling and bowing and talking those numb, dumb relatives into signing the postmortem papers.†   (source)
  • A few elves have gone beyond mere aesthetic changes and altered their anatomy to adapt to various environments, as you will see during the Blood-oath Celebration.†   (source)
  • He would sit at his desk and read his favorite book—Gray's Anatomy—and depending on what he was reading about he would use his fingers to palpate his carotid artery or his thumb to press down and follow the longest muscle in his body—the sartorius, which ran from the outside of his hip to the inside of his knee.†   (source)
  • And Dumbo, who had plenty of experience with human anatomy from processing duty: "Shoot him in the side.†   (source)
  • When the last was out, the resemblance to the cutaway model they used in anatomy classes was only faint.†   (source)
  • At the bottom were Gray's Anatomy and a collected Shakespeare, and above them, on slenderer spines, names in faded silver and gold—she saw Housman and Crabbe.†   (source)
  • Chapter 2 — The Anatomy Lesson†   (source)
  • Elsewhere, strewn between the revision notes, landscape gardening and anatomy piles, were various letters and cards: unpaid battels, letters from tutors and friends congratulating him on his first, which he still took pleasure in rereading, and others mildly querying his next step.†   (source)
  • "You know —" my mother looked over her shoulder—"if you don't mind, I just might run back and take another quick look at The Anatomy Lesson before we leave.†   (source)
  • And when I walked into the far-seeming gallery where she'd been, where she'd gone, the gallery with The Anatomy Lesson—eyes closed tight, wishing hard—there were only the same stretchers and equipment and there, as I walked through, in the oddly screaming silence, the only two observers were the same two puzzled Dutchmen who had stared at my mother and me from the wall: what are you doing here?†   (source)
  • The show was complicated to find, and as we wandered the busy galleries (weaving in and out of crowds, turning right, turning left, backtracking through labyrinths of confusing signage and layout) large gloomy reproductions of The Anatomy Lesson appeared erratically and at unexpected junctures, baleful signposts, the same old corpse with the flayed arm, red arrows beneath: operating theater, this way.†   (source)
  • He prepared a suitable animal, choosing a rhesus monkey because its anatomy was more human than a rat's.†   (source)
  • It was an anatomy lesson.†   (source)
  • She is a graduate of Harvard and New York Medical College, where her favorite professor was a Franciscan priest who taught anatomy.†   (source)
  • And now I will ask you to kindly put me down and never to grab me by that particular part of my anatomy again.†   (source)
  • That he'd proven his knowledge by filling the walls as if they were an anatomy textbook only reinforced what they all knew.†   (source)
  • He looked at the wall nearest him and then at the other wall and when the light flared and leaped there it all was, the whole tremendous thing, arches, porticos, statues, the urns and marble busts, the vines trained through balusters, the pedestaled heroes with long swords, the columns in the shape of draped figures, both walls crowded with stacked anatomies and structures, too much to take in, and angels that stood halo'd atop the pediments, and he sat there and waited for his father, for the ghost or soul of his father to make a visitation.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we talked about television shows we'd seen—we were both pretty upset with Meredith on Grey's Anatomy, and thought the girls on The Bachelor were hot but dumb as bricks.†   (source)
  • The risk to the mother varies with anatomy, and human pelvises are categorized by shapes that reflect alternate evolutionary compromises: gynecoid, android, anthropoid, and platypelloid.†   (source)
  • it's always anatomy and pus.†   (source)
  • An anatomy lesson, the feel of the tendons stretching, the muscles and fluids and tissues moving like a machine.†   (source)
  • As far as anatomy goes, yes.†   (source)
  • anatomy and pus.†   (source)
  • Gray's Anatomy became his Bible, and he drew at a frenetic pace, pages of his drawings littering our room.†   (source)
  • Braithwaite's questions became more difficult, but he found the young man's knowledge of surgical anatomy to be shockingly good.†   (source)
  • All you have to do is know your anatomy inside out, never leave the hospital, and prefer surgery over sleep, women, and grog.†   (source)
  • "Are you listening now?" she said (thinking that she didn't really want to know a man's anatomy this way).†   (source)
  • I'm sure Hema believed that a prurient interest in a woman's anatomy took me to that page in the textbook.†   (source)
  • He loved his Gray's Anatomy and carried it around so much, it had pale indentations on the cover from his fingers.†   (source)
  • The male poorhouse specimen of his first-year anatomy class had been ancient and shriveled with ghostly muscles and tendons, such being the common tender of Edinburgh anatomy theaters.†   (source)
  • In the darkness it was impossible to see, but I thought I recognized the shape and the color of his dog-eared copy of Gray's Anatomy and below that a pristine copy of some other heavy book.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the massive blood clot shimmering in the light, growing before her eyes and gloating at her like a smiling Buddha, as if to say, Hema, I have completely distorted the anatomy, dissection is going to be bloody difficult, and your landmarks will all be gone.†   (source)
  • It stemmed from his final year of medical school, when he did what was unheard of: he bought his very own cadaver so that he could master the anatomy he had already learned so well on a shared cadaver in his first year of medical school.†   (source)
  • One was his Gray's Anatomy.†   (source)
  • Even if I'm doing a hernia or a hydrocele ....in fact the simpler the operation, the more likely this is to happen ....I have to look up the surgical anatomy, go over all the steps in an operative book, even though after all these years I don't need to.†   (source)
  • "Where the devil is Ghosh?" he shouted, because Ghosh often pitched in to help Hema with abortions and tubal ligations, and, as a jack-of-all-trades, he had more experience with a women's reproductive anatomy than Stone.†   (source)
  • I thought of the surgical anatomy atlas I had seen in his condominium, a big folio book, and next to it an operative anatomy atlas, both open on his desk as if they were the last things he looked at before he left his apartment.†   (source)
  • Stone's dissection of the hand was so elegant (with just the tendon sheath exposed on the middle finger, while on the ring finger he carried it further to lay open the sheath and show the tendons of flexor sublimis like the wires of a suspension bridge, the profundus tendon coursing between them) that the anatomy professor preserved it to show the first-year students.†   (source)
  • When I am hungry, or even sometimes when I am not, this portion of my anatomy becomes autonomous and begins producing noises of a startling variety and volume and of a carrying power which has to be heard to be believed.†   (source)
  • This conjunction of circumstances led to his immediately afterwards presenting himself before the young ladies in a posture, which in ancient times would not have been considered one of favourable augury for his suit; since the gondoliers of the young ladies, having been put to some inconvenience by the chase, so neatly brought their own boat in the gentlest collision with the bark of Mr Sparkler, as to tip that gentleman over like a larger species of ninepin, and cause him to exhibit the soles of his shoes to the object of his dearest wishes: while the nobler portions of his anatomy struggled at the bottom of his boat in the arms of one of his men.†   (source)
  • Poirot clasped that portion of his anatomy before continuing.†   (source)
  • The same objection might be brought, however, against any textbook or chart of anatomy, where the physiological variations of race are disregarded in the interest of a basic general understanding of the human physique.†   (source)
  • If you look down and are not frightened of heights (the Society for the Preservation of This and That have put up some excellent railings to preserve you from tumbling over), you can see the whole anatomy of the inner court laid out beneath you like a map.†   (source)
  • People wouldn't learn much about anatomy from him but they would learn all there was to know about war.†   (source)
  • At last a white policeman was stationed behind the privies to keep the children away and our course in human anatomy was postponed.†   (source)
  • We would crouch at the foot of the slope and look up—a distance of twenty-five feet or more—at the secret and fantastic anatomies of black, brown, yellow, and ivory men and women.†   (source)
  • You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.†   (source)
  • It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it.†   (source)
  • Illuminated anatomy, the triumph of the age.†   (source)
  • I said he had savvy enough to find the index in 'Gray's Anatomy,' which is more than McGanum can do!†   (source)
  • Oh, I'm afraid my anatomy has become disconnected!†   (source)
  • Cross-legged in the examining-chair in Doc Vickerson's office, a boy was reading "Gray's Anatomy."†   (source)
  • Next morning, in the hall of the Anatomy Building, he saw Angus and rushed toward him.†   (source)
  • And then comes the autopsy, the anatomy of the grave.†   (source)
  • He had an examination in anatomy at the end of March.†   (source)
  • — KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) BOOK ONE — THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS†   (source)
  • Physician's library just three books: 'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Philip did not pass the examination in anatomy at the end of March.†   (source)
  • The internal anatomy, I may remark here, as dissection has since shown, was almost equally simple.†   (source)
  • They came to a door marked Anatomy Theatre.†   (source)
  • He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery.†   (source)
  • David and his scholars were, on the contrary, as good anatomists as they were good painters.†   (source)
  • You study the anatomy of the eye; where does the enigmatical glance you talk about come in there?†   (source)
  • —BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2.†   (source)
  • We used to play at guessing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon's, but not anatomists.†   (source)
  • There is a species of hymenoptera, observed by Fabre, the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her own decease, calls in the science of anatomy to amplify the resources of her instinctive cruelty, and, having made a collection of weevils and spiders, proceeds with marvellous knowledge and skill to pierce the nerve-centre on which their power of locomotion (but none of their other vital functions) depends, so that the paralysed insect, beside which her egg is laid, will furnish the larva†   (source)
  • The next day, while the storm was blowing itself out, Wolf Larsen and I crammed anatomy and surgery and set Mugridge's ribs.†   (source)
  • But the porcupine, squealing and grunting, with disrupted anatomy trying feebly to roll up into its ball-protection, flicked out its tail again, and again the big cat squalled with hurt and astonishment.†   (source)
  • Observe how Giotto in these frescoes—now, unhappily, ruined by restoration—is untroubled by the snares of anatomy and perspective.†   (source)
  • They passed into the anatomy theatre where Mr Dedalus, the porter aiding him, searched the desks for his initials.†   (source)
  • She talked glibly of anatomy and construction, planes and lines, and of much else which Philip did not understand.†   (source)
  • But only for a minute—only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart—or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in anatomy, and not hypercritical, anyway.†   (source)
  • These bunches have since been named rather aptly, by that distinguished anatomist, Professor Howes, the hands.†   (source)
  • Do you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others?†   (source)
  • He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.†   (source)
  • Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.†   (source)
  • One—a boy of nineteen—was studying a small manual of anatomy, and peering occasionally at a bone which lay upon the piano.†   (source)
  • The title-page—Professor Somebody's ANATOMY—carried no information to her mind; so she began to turn the leaves.†   (source)
  • Poor Huck was too distressed to smile, but the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a-man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bill like everything.†   (source)
  • But now he said, "We recently participated in some illuminated anatomy downstairs on the ground floor.†   (source)
  • In Dr. Stout's anatomy lectures there were no disturbances, but in his dissecting-room were many pleasantries.†   (source)
  • Analysis can be very unappetizing, as unappetizing as death, to which it may very well be linked—a relative of the grave and its foul anatomy.†   (source)
  • He entered the shadow of the Anatomy Building, grim as a barracks, still as the dead men lying up there in the dissecting-room.†   (source)
  • These were books on anatomy, physiology, and biology, written in various languages—German, French, and English—and sent him one day by the local bookdealer; evidently he had ordered them, on his own and without a word to anyone, while taking a walk down in Platz alone.†   (source)
  • He learned pathological anatomy from a volume he was now holding to one side to catch the reddish glow of his table lamp; the text, with a series of illustrations, discussed parasitic cell fusion and infectious tumors.†   (source)
  • He spoke of anatomy with enthusiasm: it was essential to the study of surgery; a knowledge of it added to the appreciation of art.†   (source)
  • They dusted Fatty, they stood him right side up, and pushed him through the door, on his way to Anatomy Building.†   (source)
  • The "first conjoint' examination consisted of biology, anatomy, and chemistry; but it could be taken in sections, and most fellows took their biology three months after entering the school.†   (source)
  • He thought of operating, of making a murderous wrong incision; and with a more immediate, macabre fear, he thought of the dissecting-room and the stony, steely Anatomy Building.†   (source)
  • Later in the course of the meal, the director gave a little lecture, having been prodded to do so when, from the other end of the table, James had asked him out of the blue what happened, exactly, when, a body decayed—the director had studied anatomy, and the human body was most decidedly his business, he was, so to speak, a prince of the body, if one could put it that way, and so would he now please explain the process by which the body decomposed.†   (source)
  • And in considering that inner aspect, he also thought of Settembrini, the pedagogic organ-grinder, whose father had come into the world in Greece and who explained love for that sublime image to be a matter of politics, rebellion, and eloquence, whereby the citizen's pike was consecrated on the altar of humanity; he thought, too, of Comrade Krokowski and what the two of them had been doing in his darkened suite for some time now, thought of the two sides of analysis and how it was not only beneficial to action and progress, but also a relative of the grave and its foul anatomy.†   (source)
  • Though bacteriology was all of Martin's life now, it was the theory of the University that he was also studying pathology, hygiene, surgical anatomy, and enough other subjects to swamp a genius.†   (source)
  • Philip found that his first lecture was in anatomy, at eleven, and about half past ten he limped across the road, and a little nervously made his way to the Medical School.†   (source)
  • The professor of anatomy, Dr. Oliver O. Stout, was himself an anatomy, a dissection-chart, a thinly covered knot of nerves and blood vessels and bones.†   (source)
  • "You will have to learn many tedious things,' he finished, with an indulgent smile, "which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.'†   (source)
  • The Mother of God, her hood drawn up, her brows furrowed in agony, her mouth skewed and gaping in lamentation; the Man of Sorrows on her lap, a primitive figure, badly out of scale, the crudely fashioned body revealing an ignorance of anatomy, the drooping head studded with thorns, the face and limbs splattered and dripping with blood, thick globs of congealed blood at the wound in the side, nail marks on the hands and feet—this showpiece definitely lent the silk room a special accent.†   (source)
  • Anatomy was a dreary science, a mere matter of learning by heart an enormous number of facts; dissection bored him; he did not see the use of dissecting out laboriously nerves and arteries when with much less trouble you could see in the diagrams of a book or in the specimens of the pathological museum exactly where they were.†   (source)
  • Now, in melancholy worry about his own unreasonableness, he found that he was developing the same contempt for Robertshaw's rules of the thumb—and for most of the work in anatomy.†   (source)
  • It was an ordinary doctor's waiting room like any other: back on the left, by the window, a desk with an armchair, plus an easy chair for the patient; a reference library on both sides of the door to the adjacent office; on the right at the rear, near the desk and chairs, but separated from them by a folding screen, a chaise longue set at an angle and covered in oilcloth; in the same corner, a glass cupboard filled with instruments, facing a bust of Hippocrates in the near corner; on the right wall, just above the gas fireplace, an engraving of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson; and a red carpet that covered almost the entire floor.†   (source)
  • Presently they had friends: the Holabirds, Dr. Billy Smith—the thin-bearded biochemist, who had an intelligent taste in music and German beer—an anatomist whom Martin met at a Winnemac alumni dinner, and always Max Gottlieb.†   (source)
  • Anatomy presented our researcher with human limbs skinned and prepared for study; it showed him both the surface and the deeper structure of muscles, tendons, and ligaments, those of the thigh, the foot, and especially the arm, the upper and lower arm; it taught him the Latin names that medicine—that adumbration of the humanist spirit—had nobly and chivalrously supplied to distinguish them; and it allowed him to penetrate to the skeleton, an illustration of which offered him new perspectives, revealing the unity of all things human, the interconnection of all disciplines.†   (source)
  • He was very anxious to pass, first to save himself time and expense, for money had been slipping through his fingers during the last four months with incredible speed; and then because this examination marked the end of the drudgery: after that the student had to do with medicine, midwifery, and surgery, the interest of which was more vivid than the anatomy and physiology with which he had been hitherto concerned.†   (source)
  • When, for example, he's a part-time physician, physiologist, and anatomist with some intimate knowledge of life's undergarments.†   (source)
  • Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy.†   (source)
  • The syllabus that he read on the notice-board stunned him; lectures on anatomy, lectures on pathology, lectures on physiology, lectures on pharmacy, lectures on botany and clinical medicine, and therapeutics, without counting hygiene and materia medica—all names of whose etymologies he was ignorant, and that were to him as so many doors to sanctuaries filled with magnificent darkness.†   (source)
  • An anatomist—even a mere physiognomist— would have seen that the deformity of Philip's spine was not a congenital hump, but the result of an accident in infancy; but you do not expect from Tom any acquaintance with such distinctions; to him, Philip was simply a humpback.†   (source)
  • My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone.†   (source)
  • There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives.†   (source)
  • A disciple of such character-judging anatomists as Gratiolet or Engel could have read this man's features like an open book.†   (source)
  • Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where our spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.†   (source)
  • This ingenuous little soldier, yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp-knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,—take both of them, breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of them imagine that they are fighting for their country; th†   (source)
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