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Bodypedia
Bodypedia
A Brief Compendium of
Human Anatomical Curiosities
Ada m Ta or
Illustrations by Nathalie Garcia
Princeton & Oxford
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Production Editorial: Mark Bellis
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Copyeditor: Lachlan Brooks
Cover, endpaper, and text illustrations by Nathalie Garcia
This book has been composed in Plantin, Futura, and Windsor
Printed in China
For Matilda and Ruby
Preface
Many eyes go through the meadow,
but few see the flowers.
—
This book is for anyone with a xiphoid process, two
Y-shaped ligaments of Bigelow, and a zonule of Zinn
in each eye.
That’s Zinn as in zinnia, the colorful garden plant.
German anatomist and botanist Johann Zinn gave his
name to the flowers, and your eye’s zonule. Consisting
of a few hundred fibers, each the diameter of a human
hair, the zonule suspends the eye’s lens in place and
pulls on it to change its shape, so you can focus on near
or far objects.
It’s an obscure piece of ocular ingenuity that hides
its light under a bushel, figuratively and anatomically,
its transparent fibers being hidden directly behind
your vibrant iris, which is named after the Greek for
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“ rainbow.” The long-stemmed, vividly flowered plants
you might find next to zinnias are irises for the same
reason.
One member of the iris family is the gladiolus.
Also called “sword lilies,” due to their leaves’ distinctive shape, gladioli take their name from the Latin for
“sword,” as do your gladiolus, the largest part of your
sternum (breastbone), and Roman gladiators.
Not that gladiators were only handy with swords.
They came in several varieties that were pitted against
each other for the pleasure of the masses. The ancient
equivalent of Pokémon, with marginally less shameless
merchandising.
One matchup featured a fish-themed secutor versus
a retiarius, who cosplayed a fisherman, complete with
trident and net, a “rete” in Latin. Which is why your eye
has a “retina,” perhaps because its blood vessels were
thought to resemble a net.
And now we’re back where we started, inside your
eye’s miraculous anatomy.
It’s connections like these, between your little-known
anatomical parts and a kaleidoscope of curios, taking
in geniuses, eccentrics, monsters, murder, madness,
bizarre experiments, art, literature, horrific and not-sohorrific history, the names that reside inside you, popular culture, and so on, that are the basis of the stories
in this book.
Stories that aim to be unapologetically entertaining.
“Unapologetically,” because of the not-so-uncommon
criticism that a creative, entertaining medium obscures
the factual message.
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I disagree. To suppose that facts alone are necessarily
enough is to disrespect you, the reader, in my opinion.
That said, of course I have the utmost respect for the
facts (there are many hundreds of references, available
online, to support the text) and medicine in general.
It’s in my blood.
I was conceived in the hospital I was born at (Mum
and Dad were junior doctors); lived in one as a kid;
went to medical school and qualified as a doctor; and
have written about medicine since, for audiences as
varied as groups of kids through to the most highly
specialized clinicians. Importantly, the principles of
creativity and technical rigor always apply.
These are some of the reasons why I’ve enjoyed
writing Bodypedia. And why I hope you’ll appreciate
its stories. They are, after all, about body parts that you
share with everyone else on the planet, yet that rarely
see the limelight.
So please enjoy this tour through the meadow of
your anatomy: eyes, flowers, and all.
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