WILTIMS #61: It's not procrastination if it's pretty!

Following histology yesterday, today was our last anatomy lecture. Makes me kinda sad. Also, do I actually know anatomy now?! Enough to pass this class? Sure. Enough to pass the boards? Maybe. Enough to go into surgery? Not even close.

But I have learned an awful lot! And hopefully you have learned a bit too by reading along with me. I only hope that I can find fun, interesting facts during the biochemistry and physiology courses during the next block, so we can keep this going. I'll have a couple more posts this week as we wrap up the remaining lab sections, but next week is all tests and studying, so pardon the upcoming radio silence.

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Apropo to nothing, here is a diagram I made for our histology pre-lab assignment due tomorrow, showing a simplified menstrual cycle in relation to the maturation of an ovarian follicle and uterine endometrium:

TIL: Ears begin development below the jaw of the growing embryo. The ears don't actually move as development continues, rather the jaw and rest of the face grows out and down between them.

You can hear (with magnification) a fetus' tongue move in and out of the mouth in utero. They do this in part to get the tongue out of the way of the two halves of the developing palate (roof of the month) as it extends from the sides of the proto-face to separate the nasal and oral cavities.