Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book

Angemi Nicole Angemi

Description

Anatomy for all by "the Internet's Most Famous Human Dissector" (Vice) From "A is for Anus" to "Z is for Zygomatic Bone," Nicole Angemi's My Anatomy Book offers a unique anatomical manual, accessible to all, that mixes a humorous tone with academic rigor. This guide, written by "the internet's most famous human dissector" (Vice), features well-documented medical descriptions of all the pathologies, rare and common, that can worry, fascinate, or damage the bodies of people around the world, even in the age of modern medicine. Each case is accompanied by vintage anatomical drawings and stomach-churning descriptions that will be sure to both educate and delight!

Sujets

• Sciences et techniques
• Biology
• Popular science

Informations

• Publié par: ABRAMS BOOKS
• Date de parution: 22 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798887071480
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

This book is for anyone who has ever been told no . . .

INTRODUCTION
ANGEMI ANATOMY CRASH COURSE
A / ABDOMEN
EAGLE-BARRETT SYNDROME
ENDOMETRIOSIS
LINEA NIGRA
ADRENAL GLAND
ADDISON S DISEASE
CUSHING SYNDROME
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
ANUS
CANCER
HEMORRHOIDS
PROCTECTOMY
APPENDIX
APPENDICITIS
PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI
ARM
TRAUMA
B / BLADDER
CANCER
BONE
EWING S SARCOMA
GIANT CELL TUMOR
PECTUS EXCAVATUM
THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME
BRAIN
SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE / ANEURYSM
BREAST
CANCER / IMPLANTS
GYNECOMASTIA
PHYLLODES TUMOR
MASTITIS
C / CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS
HEMATOMA
RAYNAUD S PHENOMENON
VENOUS MALFORMATION
D / DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
BEZOAR
CELIAC DISEASE
COLON CANCER
STOMACH CANCER
ESOPHAGEAL ULCER
E / EAR
ACCESSORY TRAGUS
PERICHONDRIAL HEMATOMA
MICROTIA AND ATRESIA
KELOID
EYE
CHALAZION
COLOBOMA
CORNEAL ABRASION / SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE
HERPES
TRAUMA / PROSTHETIC
F / FASCIA
NECROTIZING FASCIITIS
FEET
HALLUX VALGUS (BUNIONS)
PLANTAR WART
POLYSYNDACTYLY
G / GALLBLADDER
GALLSTONES
H / HAIR
ALOPECIA
POLIOSIS CIRCUMSCRIPTA
PILONIDAL CYST
HANDS
ACROSYNDACTYLY
SYMBRACHYDACTYLY
GUNSHOT WOUND
HEART
AORTIC ANEURYSM
TRANSPLANT
I / IMMUNE SYSTEM
ALLERGY
LUPUS
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
J / JAW
ODONTOGENIC MYXOMA
JOINTS
EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME
GOUT
K / KIDNEY
DUPLICATED URETER / HYDRONEPHROSIS
LIVING DONOR
ONCOCYTOMA
POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE
L / LIVER
ALCOHOLIC CIRRHOSIS
BILIARY ATRESIA
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
PRIMARY LYMPHEDEMA
SECONDARY LYMPHEDEMA
M / MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
ORCHIECTOMY
VASECTOMY
PENIS TRAUMA
N / NAILS
BEAU LINES
AVULSION
CLUBBING
NERVOUS SYSTEM
PARAPLEGIA
NOSE
PERFORATED NASAL SEPTUM
TRAUMA / NECROSIS
O / OVARIES
MALIGNANT MIXED GERM CELL TUMOR
TERATOMA
TORSION
P / PANCREAS
WHIPPLE
PLACENTA
VELAMENTOUS CORD INSERTION
Q / QUADRICEPS
TENDON RUPTURE
R / RESPIRATORY
CYSTIC FIBROSIS / LUNG TRANSPLANT
S / SALIVARY GLAND
SIALOLITHIASIS
SKIN
GIANT CONGENITAL MELANOCYTIC NEVUS
MELANOMA
RADIATION DERMATITIS
T / TEETH
NATAL TEETH
THROAT
GONORRHEA
THYMUS
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
THYROID
GOITER
TONGUE
FISSURED TONGUE
TRAUMA
PYOGENIC GRANULOMA
U / UTERUS
FIBROIDS
UTERINE DIDELPHYS
V / VAGINA
EPISIOTOMY / INFECTION
VULVA
VULVAR INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA
W / WOMB
HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK
AMNIOTIC BAND SYNDROME
X Y / X Y CHROMOSOMES
KLINEFELTER SYNDROME
Z / ZYGOMATIC
FRACTURE
INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
I m no different than any other middle-aged, married mother of three. I drive my kids around to their soccer games and jiujitsu training, have movie nights with my family, cook dinner, and enjoy doing arts and crafts projects around my house. Oh, and I also dissect humans on the side!
Aside from being a wife and mother, I am a pathologists assistant. A pathologists assistant, or PA, is a trained medical professional that works in a hospital s pathology department. PAs specialize in human anatomy, abnormal anatomy, and disease. Some PAs work in a hospital s surgical pathology laboratory dissecting organs and body parts that are removed from live patients, while others work in hospital morgues performing autopsies.
Throughout the course of my career, I ve dissected thousands of humans and human body parts using my specialized training and experience. By carefully looking at the anatomy, I m able to determine what s normal and what causes a patient to have pathology both in life and in death.
Growing up, I never felt normal or like I fit in until I found pathology. Finally, I began to feel normal when I discovered the abnormal. This was my calling!
As a child, I wasn t an academic and hated school. Bored and rebellious, I often got myself into trouble. Detentions, suspensions, and frequent phone calls to my parents just touched the surface of the problems I dealt with growing up. My stubbornness and impulsivity eventually led me to a teen pregnancy at fourteen years old.
After months of anger and sadness, my parents and I decided the best thing for our family and our beliefs was to keep the baby. At fifteen years old, I gave birth to my daughter, Maria. Keeping her was the best decision I ve ever made. In fact, she saved my life.
Being a teen mom was rough, both socially and academically. I struggled in school with friends, and dating. My life was so different from anyone I knew. The years following my pregnancy were difficult. I had a kid, yet was a kid myself, and trying to find my way. At sixteen, I dropped out of high school and hopped from job to job with no real direction.
A couple of years later, my parents were notified that my daughter and I would both no longer be covered under their health insurance. I was only nineteen and had to get a job with benefits quickly. Having no motivation or interest in anything, this was really a blessing in disguise. I was forced to get my shit together.
Remember how I said I hated school? I really did. The very thought of it made me want to take a nap. Suddenly, I found myself enrolling in my local community college in the summer of 1999 after deciding I would try to be a nurse.
Why did I choose nursing? It was not because I was compassionate, nurturing, and wanted to help people. I had a cousin who was an RN. It seemed like it was a solid, dependable, well-paying career she obtained in less than three years. At this time, being in school for the least amount of time possible was a huge motivating factor.
In 1999, there wasn t online registration for college courses. I had to pick my classes out of a catalog and stand in line for hours to register. Before picking my classes, I met with a counselor, telling her my intentions of being a nurse. She told me I had to start by taking four basic courses: math, English, psychology, and biology. I had no idea what to expect. After all, I barely went to high school!
The first day of biology, my professor discussed the material we would be learning throughout the semester. For a person who hated school, I quickly became very interested in what we d be learning.
A few days into the class, we were introduced to the microscope. First, we looked at a newspaper clipping to learn how to adjust the objective lenses on the scope. Next, my teacher took a piece of skin from an onion and put it on a microscope slide for us. Under the microscope, I was able to see the inner workings of the onion: plant cells. That was the moment I fell in love with science.
As the weeks went on, I started looking forward to going to school, particularly biology class. Biology was very exciting to learn, and even more exciting that I understood it. Biology 101 is a class that almost every college student must take. My professor not only took notice of my interest but was excited to have a student who was interested in the material she was teaching.
One day we were talking after class and I jokingly said, I wish there was a job I could get where I could look under the microscope all day and get paid. Her eyes lit up. She told me that was a possibility!
In addition to teaching, my professor worked as a medical technologist in the microbiology lab for a local hospital. She discussed her job with me, including her responsibilities of identifying bacteria that made people sick and helping doctors know which antibiotics to give the patients. She introduced me to a world I didn t know existed. Forget being a nurse, I wanted to be a scientist!
Being 1999, I could not run home and google all about the medical laboratory, because google wasn t really a thing yet! In the late nineties, my family did not have much of a connection to the internet at all. We had one computer in our house and the internet was connected through our phone line. On a perfect day, it would take about twenty minutes to get connected to the internet, and as soon as the phone rang, it would kick me off. All research for my future career had to be done the old-fashioned way-by talking to people!
My professor helped me network with other laboratory professionals, eventually landing me my first job working in a hospital microbiology lab. My job consisted of taking urine, sputum, blood, feces, nose swabs, etc. and putting them on agar plates. Agar plates (petri dishes) are plastic dishes filled with gel that help bacteria grow.
Many aspects of the lab piqued my interest. In 2001, the anthrax attacks after 9/11 initially got me interested in infectious diseases and bioterrorism. This all fueled my desire to learn more about cells under the microscope.
My perspective on life changed in such a short period of time. Only months prior, I was dreading the thought of having to go to college for two whole years. Now I was looking into universities to further my education. I wanted more.
After completing my prerequisites at the community college, I transferred to a university in Philadelphia. I switched jobs, now working at a larger lab at a university hospital and moved myself and my then-seven-year-old daughter to the city.
Since I had such a strong interest in cellular changes and the microscope, I majored in cytotechnology. Cytotechnology is a part of the anatomic pathology lab that studies changes in cells under the microscope, looking for signs of cancer, infections, and other pathology.
At twenty-three, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science and was even awarded an Outstanding Academic Scholarship. Pretty good for a high school dropout who hated school! I was hired as a cytotechnologist at the hospital affiliated with my university, where I stayed employed for the next ten years of my life.
I worked as a cytotechnologist for the first couple of years at that hospital. It was basically an office job-well, maybe a morbid office job. I had my own cubicle and wore professional