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  • Vertebral column with dissections of nerves and blood vessels, with skin (?) in the background, and (left) the figure of a man representing Ecclesiastes, the whole being an illustration of Ecclesiastes XII, 6 "the silver cord". Drawing attributed to Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma of the C2 vertebrae, located at the top of the neck just underneath the base of the skull.
  • Die Retina der Wirbelthiere : Untersuchungen mit der Golgi-Cajal'schen Chromsilbermethode und der Ehrlich'schen Methylenblaufärbung / nach Arbeiten von S. Ramon y Cajal ; in Verbindung mit dem Verfasser zusammengestellt, übersetzt und mit Einleitung versehen von Richard Greeff.
  • A chart of farm animals consisting of quadrupeds (horse, donkey, pig, dog, cow and sheep) and birds (hens, geese and ducks). Process print.
  • Veins and arteries. Engraving, 1686.
  • Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent midlines
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, prometaphase
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells,telophase
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, prometaphase
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, interphase
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, interphase
  • Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent myotomes
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, cytokinesis
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, anaphase
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells,prometaphase
  • Xenopus cancer kidney cells, metaphase
  • Neuromuscular junction in fast-twitch muscle
  • Neuromuscular junctions in fast-twitch muscle fibres
  • Neuromuscular junction in fast-twitch muscle
  • Neuromuscular junctions in slow- and fast-twitch muscle
  • Neuromuscular junction in fast-twitch muscle
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science: speakers at its meeting in Cambridge in 1904. Drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1904.
  • Dorsal root ganglion
  • Zebrafish embryo.
  • Four chambers of a calf stomach