"And although standard anatomy texts show the carotid artery going straight through the cavernous sinus, dissections find that it often runs to the side," he added.
Rod remembered that the original Galen had authored the first definitive anatomy text back at the dawn of the Terran Renaissance.
Painted Lady Figure paintings by Amedeo Modigliani would never be confused with illustrations from anatomy texts.
How complex the human body: the transparent pages of the anatomy text turned one by one to reveal the organs in vivid color.
As readers follow Helen, we see the same images she is seeing: illustrated plates from ancient anatomy texts, medicine vials, a pearl-studded picture frame.
Scouring anatomy texts, he studied ligaments, tendons, nerves and bones.
Her captivating installation, "Conundrum," contrasts illustrations from ancient anatomy texts with photographic close-ups of body details printed on shimmering fabric.
I could see individual muscle fibers circling the orbits and streaming across the cheekbones and mandible, like a line drawing in an anatomy text.
Another specter swam up beside the first, a ghost like an illustration from an anatomy text, muscles and ligaments naked to the night.
The back wall held tacked-on color photos that looked like they were torn from anatomy texts: close-up shots of diseased organs oozing blood and pus.