by Fiona Palmer | Apr 3, 2022 | Anatomy
Ossicle or Ossiculum…. Little bone. The stapes is the smallest bone in the body, pronounced stay-peas. Latin for stirrup, it really does look like one. This bone is one of three known as the ossicles or auditory ossicles. The Malleus (hammer), incus (anvil) and...
by Fiona Palmer | Mar 27, 2022 | Anatomy
The tongue; It might be small, and some might think insignificant, but our tongue packs a punch, so we should look after it. A muscular hydrostat, the tongue forms the floor of the mouth, our buccal or oral cavity. Our tongue is divided into two parts; the oral part...
by Fiona Palmer | Mar 13, 2022 | Anatomy
Sunday fun fact: Did you know that the uterosacral ligament was found to extend further on the right, although similar on both sides? n a study in healthy women, the origin and insertion points exhibited greater anatomic variation than the name Uterosacral ligament...
by Fiona Palmer | Mar 7, 2022 | Anatomy
Pilates Therapy and Bodyworks Trigone of the urinary bladder – This triangular tissue region is located at the base of the urinary bladder: the two ureters and the opening at the bottom of the bladder into the urethra form this area. This muscular structure is...
by Fiona Palmer | Feb 28, 2022 | Anatomy
So many interesting things to look at when covering the anatomy of the body. Our fun fact for today is Cornu (a), something in the body that is horn-shaped, like, for instance, the horn-shaped projections on the hyoid bone. * Uterine Cornu – these projections...
