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The field of anatomy has a colorful history more than 3,000 years long. Egyptian papyri depicting organs and networks of vessels, Hippocrates’ drawings of heart valves, and Aristotle’s visions of blood laid the foundation for a lengthy visual catalogue of anatomical information. In the 16th century, Vesalius revolutionized the field by introducing the scientific method to cadaver dissection. Thanks to technology, we can now see more of internal anatomy—and in novel ways—than our predecessors’ scalpels ever could reveal. Jeffrey Laitman, president of the American Association of Anatomists, presents the latest generation of electronic tools and demonstrates their remarkable visualization capacities.
