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2. Z-plasty - Wikipedia

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   Z-plasty is a versatile plastic surgery technique that is used to improve the functional and cosmetic appearance of scars. It can elongate a contracted scar or rotate the scar tension line. The middle line of the Z-shaped incision (the central element) is made along the line of the greatest tension or contraction, and triangular flaps are ...

3. Shoulder Anatomy, Area & Diagram | Body Maps - Healthline

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   tendons, to attach the muscles to the bones. The collection of muscles and tendons in the shoulder is known as the rotator cuff. It stabilizes the shoulder and holds the head of the humerus in the ...

4. Skeletal System: Anatomy and Function, Diagram, Diseases, and ...

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   The human skeletal system consists of all of the bones, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments in the body. Altogether, the skeleton makes up about 20 percent of a person’s body weight. An adult’s ...

5. Zygomatic arch - Wikipedia

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   In anatomy, the zygomatic arch, or cheek bone, is a part of the skull formed by the zygomatic process of the temporal bone (a bone extending forward from the side of the skull, over the opening of the ear) and the temporal process of the zygomatic bone (the side of the cheekbone), the two being united by an oblique suture (the zygomaticotemporal suture); the tendon of the temporal muscle ...

6. Wrist Anatomy, Pictures & Diagram | Body Maps - Healthline

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   Wrist. The wrist connects the hand to the forearm. It consists of the distal ends of the radius and ulna bones, eight carpal bones, and the proximal ends of five metacarpal bones. This arrangement ...

7. Triangular space - Wikipedia

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   Triangular space is the medial space. The scapular and circumflex arteries. (Triangular space is visible but not labeled.) The triangular space (also known as the medial triangular space, [1] upper triangular space, [2] medial axillary space or foramen omotricipitale [3]) is one of the three spaces found at the axillary space.

8. Anatomy: A New Look at the Interstitium, an Organ Wannabe - WebMD

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   The study of human anatomy reaches back thousands of years, to the Romans and Greeks. Herophilus, the Greek anatomist, is considered the first to take a scalpel to skin to see how our bodies work ...

9. Human body - Wikipedia

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   The human body is composed of elements including hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, calcium and phosphorus. These elements reside in trillions of cells and non-cellular components of the body. The adult male body is about 60% water for a total water content of some 42 litres (9.2 imp gal; 11 US gal).