A new video - a new limb! Here I introduce the bones of the lower limb (that’s the ‘leg’ to you if you’re not an anatomist - yet). From the bony pelvis to the tips of your toes. Joints coming soon, I promise!
Another excellent video. I've said this before your other anatomy videos but I'll say it again. These are the best introductory anatomy summaries for Medical students that I've come across. Please do more!
I think Alice is a fascinating and interesting person. I would really enjoy meeting for coffee or tea and talking about biology, humanism, and embryology.
That was an amazing video and I loved your explanations! Can you also do one on the anatomy of birds and/or dinosaurs? I want to become a dinosaur palaeontologist and I would really love to be familiar with their skeletal structure.
A question that bridges this series and your embryology series. - All of the attachments and notches on bones look complex. Do they emerge out of necessity in the embryo or are these notches and attachments programmed. What I mean is do the notches, for example, emerge in the embryo because there is an object in the way, eg a nerve, a blood vessel etc and the bone just doesn't grow and push it away, or would those points emerge even if that object wasn't there. Similarly with the attachments, do the tendons come first or the attachments?
I have whacked my shin bone with a mucking out fork more times than I care to remember. I just know my nemesis the sciatic nerve is coming soon I can feel it, the trapped nightmare within my leg.
For me, my biggest enemy beyond that sciatic bastard is wierdly my right extensor digitorum longus. Odd one to go wrong I know, but hey wired should have been my middle name :p
Fabulous. I hope you'll explain why we have a tibia and a fibula. They look to be both attached to the same bone at top and bottom ends (should I say proximal and distal to sound like I know something?) and not more relative to each other, so why do we need two lower leg bones?
opentelemark I would say firstly - evolution, secondly - ankle mechanics, thirdly - for extra muscle attachment. In some vertebrates the fibula is fused to the tibia, or very slender indeed. Comparative fibular anatomy would make for an interesting (if rather niche!) little study...
