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How does a muscle go undiscovered for so long? I would have through we’d have dissected, autopsied and studied so many bodies in every way conceivable by now t
by lethologica 5y ago
How does a muscle go undiscovered for so long? I would have through we’d have dissected, autopsied and studied so many bodies in every way conceivable by now that there wouldn’t be anything else left to find?
- boringg 5y agoLook up how recently we figured out what fascia was responsible for. We are more confident in our knowledge then we should be. We have come a long way and have a much longer way to go.
- Someone 5y agoI have never dissected a body, but I do know that they look nowhere like the textbook images. It’s all the same-ish color, lots of things are firmly attached to others, stuff is hiding other stuff from view, etc. I understand tracing the major nerves already is fairly difficult. In addition, https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... doesn’t only apply to the outside of persons. The inside varies as much. Locations, sizes, connections, etc. all can vary. As an extreme examples, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91022/5-muscles-you-might-be-missing https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91022/5-muscles-you-migh... lists 5 muscles that not every person has. Also, if, as a student, you’re tasked to find the P parts of an object, there’s a strong tendency to search on when you only have found P-1, and to not go look for a P+1-st when you have found the P-th.
- xapata 5y agoIt's not a new muscle. They're drawing a distinction between different parts of the masseter muscle. I showed this article to a dentist. They didn't think it was interesting.