Editing Human body (section)

===History of anatomy===
{{Main|History of anatomy}}
[[File:Externarvm hvmani corporis sedivm partivmve, 1543..JPG|thumb|Two facing pages of text with woodcuts of naked male and female figures, in the ''Epitome'' by [[Andreas Vesalius]], 1543]]

In [[Ancient Greece]], the ''[[Hippocratic Corpus]]'' described the anatomy of the skeleton and muscles.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gillispie |first=Charles Coulston | author-link=Charles Coulston Gillispie |title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography | volume=VI | pages=419–427 |year=1972 | publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] | location=New York}}</ref> The 2nd century physician [[Galen|Galen of Pergamum]] compiled classical knowledge of anatomy into a text that was used throughout the Middle Ages.<ref name=BritBrit-Galen>{{cite encyclopedia |chapter-url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/223895/Galen-of-Pergamum |title=Encyclopædia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD |chapter=Galen of Pergamum |first=Vivian | last=Nutton |date=12 December 2023 |author-link=Vivian Nutton}}</ref> In the [[Renaissance]], [[Andreas Vesalius]] (1514–1564) pioneered the modern study of human anatomy by dissection, writing the influential book ''[[De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem|De humani corporis fabrica]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htm |title=Vesalius's ''De Humanis Corporis Fabrica'' |publisher=Archive.nlm.nih.gov |access-date=29 August 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Andreas Vesalius (1514–1567)|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/apl/uivs/1999/00000012/00000003/art00002?crawler=true|date=1 May 1999|publisher=Ingentaconnect|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105145007/http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/apl/uivs/1999/00000012/00000003/art00002?crawler=true|archive-date=5 November 2011|access-date=29 August 2010}}</ref> Anatomy advanced further with the invention of the [[microscope]] and the study of the cellular structure of tissues and organs.<ref name=BritMicro>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22980/anatomy/283/Microscopic-anatomy |title=Microscopic anatomy |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> Modern anatomy uses techniques such as [[magnetic resonance imaging]], [[CT scan|computed tomography]], [[fluoroscopy]] and [[Medical ultrasound|ultrasound imaging]] to study the body in unprecedented detail.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/foxhumphys/student/olc/h-reading1.html | title=Anatomical Imaging | publisher=[[McGraw Hill Higher Education]] | year=1998 | access-date=25 June 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232044/http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/foxhumphys/student/olc/h-reading1.html | archive-date=3 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>