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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@brturbo.com>
To: "don barton johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Fw: throat pit
> Google explains that there are seventeen parts of the human anatomy that
> shall undergo a change in their names . One of them is the " Adam´s
apple",
> that will soon be called "laringeal prominence" since, in contrast with
> what the name suggests, such a protuberance exists both in men and women.
> The name comes from the story of Adam and Eve: a piece of the apple would
> have been stuck in Adam´s larynx...
>
> The process of renaming certain parts of the human body is under the care
of
> 21 scientists that belong to the Federative Committee for Terminonlogy
and
> who were elected by colleagues from more than thirty countries. The former
> nomenclature, dated from 1980, is not generally accepted, garantees the
> Brazilian doctor, Liberato John DiDio. Since 1895, when the first
> nomenclature was approved anatomists have been trying a consensus and the
> original list has undergone changes more than four times. The human body
> needs at least 6000 names to describe every macroscopic body part , states
> another Brazilian, José Carlos Prates, da Universidade Federal de São
> Paulo. The greatest innovations apply to cerebral arteries and the
> description of the nervous system .
> The new classification also tries to end with eponyms that carry the
> name of the first scientist to describe the organ since many words suffer
> from insufficient anatomical knowledge now made easier thanks to
tomography
> and other scientific procedures.
> Copyright © 2000 jPauloN.RochaJr Corporation , All rights reserved.
>
From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@brturbo.com>
To: "don barton johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Fw: throat pit
> Google explains that there are seventeen parts of the human anatomy that
> shall undergo a change in their names . One of them is the " Adam´s
apple",
> that will soon be called "laringeal prominence" since, in contrast with
> what the name suggests, such a protuberance exists both in men and women.
> The name comes from the story of Adam and Eve: a piece of the apple would
> have been stuck in Adam´s larynx...
>
> The process of renaming certain parts of the human body is under the care
of
> 21 scientists that belong to the Federative Committee for Terminonlogy
and
> who were elected by colleagues from more than thirty countries. The former
> nomenclature, dated from 1980, is not generally accepted, garantees the
> Brazilian doctor, Liberato John DiDio. Since 1895, when the first
> nomenclature was approved anatomists have been trying a consensus and the
> original list has undergone changes more than four times. The human body
> needs at least 6000 names to describe every macroscopic body part , states
> another Brazilian, José Carlos Prates, da Universidade Federal de São
> Paulo. The greatest innovations apply to cerebral arteries and the
> description of the nervous system .
> The new classification also tries to end with eponyms that carry the
> name of the first scientist to describe the organ since many words suffer
> from insufficient anatomical knowledge now made easier thanks to
tomography
> and other scientific procedures.
> Copyright © 2000 jPauloN.RochaJr Corporation , All rights reserved.
>