Vesalius in a sentence

During the 20th century, the American artist, Jacob Lawrence created his Vesalius Suite based on the anatomical drawings of Andreas Vesalius.

Miscellaneous * Vesalius disproved Galen's assertion that men have more teeth than women. citation * Vesalius introduced the notion of induction of the extraction of empyema through surgical means.

Vesalius' reply to Fallopio was published in May 1564, a month after Vesalius' death on the Greek island of Zante (now called Zakynthos ).

Before the end of the year Vesalius composed a cordial reply, Anatomicarum Gabrielis Fallopii observationum examen, generally referred to as the Examen.

Besides this 'descriptive' name, Vesalius used glandula pituitaria, from which the English name pituitary gland Anderson, D.M. (2000).

Garrison, Daniel H. Vesalius: The China Root Epistle.

Heart * Through his work with muscles, Vesalius believed that a criterion for muscles was their voluntary motion.

In his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became convinced that Galen's claims of a porous Interventricular septum were false.

In his extensive study of the skull, Vesalius claimed that the mandible consisted of one bone, whereas Galen had thought it was two separate bones.

It was in this opening chapter, or book, of De fabrica that Vesalius made several of his strongest claims against Galen's theories and writings which he had put in his anatomy books.

Like Darwin three centuries later, Vesalius was going up against the towering authority of a tradition stretching back to the ancients — here specifically the work of Galen — with only his experience on his side.

Muscular system * Vesalius' most impressive contribution to the study of the muscular system may be the illustrations that accompany the text in De fabrica, which would become known as the "muscle men".

One of the best known examples of Vesalius' overturning of Galenism was his demonstration that the interventricular septum of the heart was not permeable, as Galen had taught (Nat Fac III xv).

Over the next eleven years Vesalius traveled with the court, treating injuries from battle or tournaments, performing postmortems, administering medications, and writing private letters addressing specific medical questions.

Physicians like Vesalius improved upon or disproved some of the theories from the past.

Prior to arriving in Padua, Vesalius traveled through Italy, and assisted the future Pope Paul IV and Ignatius of Loyola healing those afflicted by Hansen’s disease (leprosy).

Publications De Humani Corporis Fabrica Vesalius's Fabrica contained many intricately detailed drawings of human dissections, often in allegorical poses.

Seeking to examine critically Galen's methods and outlook, Vesalius turned to human cadaver dissection as a means of verification.

These investigations allowed Vesalius to refute aspects of Galen's anatomy.

This preparation ("The Basel Skeleton") is Vesalius' only well-preserved skeletal preparation today, and is also the world's oldest surviving anatomical preparation.