Pierre Nicolas Gerdy (May 1, 1797 - March 18, 1856) was a French physician who was a native of Loches. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Loches is a town and commune in France, capital of an arrondissement in the département of Indre-et-Loire, 29 miles southeast He was a professor with the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, and worked with the greatest Parisian surgeons of the early and mid-19th century, including Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin (1790-1847), Armand Velpeau (1795-1867) and Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835). Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city In Medicine, a surgeon is a person who performs Surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive Medical treatment that involves the cutting of a Jacques Lisfranc de St Martin ( April 2 1790 - May 13 1847) was a pioneering French Surgeon and Gynecologist. Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau ( May 18, 1795 - August 24, 1867) was a French Anatomist and Surgeon who was born in a Guillaume Dupuytren, Baron ( October 5, 1778 - February 8, 1835) was a French Anatomist and military surgeon. The famed anatomist Paul Broca (1824-1880) was an assistant to Gerdy for several years during the 1840s. Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration Paul Pierre Broca ( June 28, 1824 &ndash July 9, 1880) was a French Physician, Anatomist, and Anthropologist
Gerdy was known for contributions as a surgeon, anatomist, pathologist and physiologist. In Medicine, a surgeon is a person who performs Surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive Medical treatment that involves the cutting of a Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration Pathology (from Greek grc πάθος pathos, "fate harm" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study and Physiology (from Greek grc φύσις physis, "nature origin" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the mechanical physical He also worked with artists and sculptors, and in 1821 published Anatomie des formes extérieures du corps humain, appliqué à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la chirurgie, which was a book of anatomy as it applied to sculpture, painting and surgery. Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental Gerdy is also remembered for his description of numerous eponymous parts of the anatomy. However, several of these names have since been replaced by clinical nomenclature:
- Gerdy's fibers: Superficial transverse metacarpal ligament
- Gerdy's fontanelle: sagittal fontanelle
- Gerdy's hyoid fossa: Trigonum caroticum
- Gerdy's interatrial loop: A muscular fasciculus in the interatrial septum of the heart, passing backward from the atrioventricular groove. The superficial transverse metacarpal ligament is a ligament of the intermetacarpal articulations joint which runs beneath the Deep transverse metacarpal ligament. References in Pop Culture The dragon in John Gardner's 1971 novel Grendel makes reference to the fontanele as a mark of the universe's progress The carotid triangle (or superior carotid triangle) is a portion of the Anterior triangle of the neck. The interatrial septum is the wall of tissue that separates the right and left atria of the Heart. The Atria of the Heart are separated from the ventricles by the coronary sulcus ( coronary groove, auriculoventricular groove,
- Gerdy's ligament: Suspensory ligament of axilla
- Gerdy's tubercle: lateral tubercle of the tibia (Eponym actively used in medicine today). The axilla (or armpit, underarm, or oxter) is the area on the human body directly under the joint where the Arm connects to the Shoulder In anatomy a tubercle is a round Nodule, small Eminence, or Warty outgrowth found on Bones skin or within the lungs in Tuberculosis The tibia, shinbone, or shankbone is the larger and stronger of the two Bones in the Leg below the Knee in vertebrates and connects
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- MedicineWord, Definition of Eponyms
- Timothy C. Beals, "So who was Gerdy?, and how did he get his own tubercule?", The American Journal of Orthopedics, Nov. 1996 p. 750-752.
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