Anatomical position is a specific body position used when describing human anatomy. It’s often used by healthcare professionals to help discuss parts of the body in a clear and consistent manner.

Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old illustrations of human anatomy ... spine with the correct curves. He also came tantalizingly close to understanding how blood moved through the body, a mystery ...

all in order to gain a better idea of how to portray the human body in their art. Da Vinci, it is said, conducted the first correct anatomical study of a human fetus. The rare artists' manuals ...

Multiple organs work together to keep the human body functioning. Health screening campaigns which target a specific organ may lack effectiveness if the public have a poor knowledge of anatomy ...

Alastair Sooke looks through the ultimate Renaissance man’s anatomical sketchbooks – scientific masterpieces full of lucid insights into the functioning of the human body. We tend to think of ...

The piece portrays a cadaver with its head covered and turned from the viewer, a position that reflects the human body as an object, a theme present both in anatomy and in Linder’s art. A second, ...

“I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section,” she says. Caroline Morley Looking for anatomical ...

aims to put the visual power of anatomical aesthetics in perspective. Opening next week, the show will feature 150 images of the human body from the 16th century to the present, many of them from ...

Yet one great achievement that frequently goes unrecognized is his studies of human anatomy ... depicts the position of the fetus in the uterus, and the umbilical cord anatomy.

Share As an artist, he used science to understand the human body. As an anatomist ... And his findings were not always correct. Yet, his anatomical studies remain scientifically significant.