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the Aborigines showed a basic understanding of anatomy. Most of our knowledge of this comes from cave paintings depicting pictures of various body parts and x-rays of animals y It shows that they had a basic knowledge of where the bones in the body were located.
physiology most of which was gained when they were carrying out the process of mummification. organs of the body, so they knew exactly where to cut the body to remove the organs.
name the organs and discover their purpose within the body.
y They believed the heart was the prime organ of the body and was the
meeting point of a number of vessels which carried all the fluids of the body e.g. blood, tears, urine.
of the human body. y They used to carry out dissection of dead bodies, they would take apart a body to see what is inside. y This helped because it enabled the Romans to know where all the major organs were positioned in the human body. y They would also carry out vivisection on animals, this means the dissection of living animals and even men.
for well over a millennium. His knowledge of medical anatomy came and were based upon his dissection on animals(Human dissection was prohibited) y By basing his studies on animals he made many assumptions which he then applied to the human body, many of which turned out to be extremely wrong. y He found that muscles work in opposing pairs: for every muscle that causes a joint to bend, there is an opposing muscle that restores the joint to its original position.
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anatomy. y This is because it gives doctors a more vivid image of the skeletal structure of the human body. y This key scientific instrument has also helped doctors to know where a typical bone fracture originated from by looking at the most severely damaged parts of the bones.