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Superficial arteries and veins of the face and scalp. Human anatomy. Lists of body parts, systems, and organs. bones of the human hand human nail muscles of the forearm; human muscle system muscles of the upper arm; human muscle system arm muscles human skull and neck cutaneous nerves of the head and neck lymphatic system of the head and neck
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Superficial arteries and veins of the face and scalp.
Human anatomy. Lists of body parts, systems, and organs.
bones of the human hand
human nail
muscles of the forearm; human muscle system
muscles of the upper arm; human muscle system
arm muscles
human skull and neck
cutaneous nerves of the head and neck
lymphatic system of the head and neck
How are different systems of the human body connected?
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William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Steno, Nicolaus
Nicolaus Steno
Danish geologist
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
Bichat, detail of an engraving
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Morgagni, engraving by Giovanni Volpato
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Italian anatomist and pathologist

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