A plea for an extension of the anatomical nomenclature: The locomotor system.

Vladimir Musil,Vaclav Baca,Alzbeta Blankova

doi:10.17305/bjbms.2017.2276

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Abstract

Anatomical nomenclature is the main tool of communication in morphology, anatomy and other medical disciplines as well as in medical education, and thus needs to be exact, flawless, elaborate and correct. The Terminologia Anatomica (TA) is a thorough and extensive list of anatomical terms and their definitions, and the current standard for human anatomical terminology. Although several revisions to the TA have been made in the last 20 years, some important anatomical structures are still not included. This article is aimed at correcting and extending the anatomical nomenclature described in the TA. We gathered and presented a list of anatomical terms, with their definitions and explanations, to provoke a discussion about correcting and extending the TA. Our list comprises of 96 terms related to the locomotor system of the human body, i.e., the bones, joints, muscles and related structures.

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This article is aimed at correcting and extending the anatomical nomenclature described in the Terminologia Anatomica (TA)
Introductory remarks about the history and clinical relevance of anatomical nomenclature, the importance of anatomical nomenclature in accomplishing clear and unambiguous communication between different medical fields, and proposals of a large number of new terms have been stated in our previous articles [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
The revised edition of the anatomical nomenclature was issued by the Federative Committee on Anatomical terminology (FCAT) 19 years ago

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This article is aimed at correcting and extending the anatomical nomenclature described in the Terminologia Anatomica (TA). This article is aimed at correcting and extending the anatomical nomenclature described in the last version of the TA, with the final goal to incorporate the revised list of terms into the new version of the TA [11]. Canalis incisivus has two openings, the superior innominate opening located in the floor of cavitas nasi, and the inferior opening termed foramen incisivum (of Stensen/ Steno), which opens into the fossa incisiva ossis incisivi (fossa incisiva premaxillae) and cavitas oris (or in a bony skull onto basis cranii externa). These terms should be corrected as bursa subtendinea/profunda infrapatellaris and bursa subtendinea calcanea, respectively, to have a concise terminology and to clarify the exact position of the latter [32,33,34]

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