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The quote is not about learning the bones, but their names. TBF there is some regularity to the names e.g. the finger bones (phalanges) are named in a 2D grid
by hyperpallium 8y ago
The quote is not about learning the bones, but their names.
TBF there is some regularity to the names e.g. the finger bones (phalanges) are named in a 2D grid of thumb..litte X inner..tip:
I..V x proximal,middle,distal - Imiddle
Toes are same named!
- kryptiskt 8y agoIf a doctor didn't know the names, what would he put in the patient's journal pre-surgery so the surgeon knew where to operate? Would he draw a hand with an arrow to the correct bone or write a paragraph describing where it is?
- hyperpallium 8y agoCould he look it up?
- hopler 8y agoA diagram seems less likely to be incorrect.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The quote is not about learning the bones, but their names. Names simplify communication, both from educator to learner in teaching and practitioner to practitioner in use. Learning the names used for things in a field, is for that reason, usually part of learning about the things (and the field.) (Of course, names aren't always words, they can be visual symbols, and it's not like people learning math don't have to learn a whole lot of domain-specific visual notation alongside learning the concepts that notation is used to communicate about, for the exact same reason as medical students learn the names of bones and other body parts.)