Book Review Published: 13 January 2007 Netter's head and neck anatomy for dentistry F. McDonald British Dental Journal 202, 50–51 (2007) Cite this article ...

In summary, the basic anatomy of the human body involves understanding the structure and organization of body systems, organs, tissues, cavities, joints, bones, blood vessels, and nerves.

And when his father, a surgeon, retired, the elder Dunlap gave his son his copy of “Gray’s Anatomy,” its cover adorned with Henry Vandyke Carter’s arresting illustration of a neck flayed ...

By the 1400s more scientific dissections were being done in university medical schools. But they weren't always somber, strictly educational affairs, like the human anatomy classes taught today.