The ribs and rib cage are excellent examples of the human body’s multifaceted and multifunctional ... These extra ribs are called supernumerary ribs. When people are born with less than 24 ...

The motor cortex is organized in a way that correlates to a distorted representation of the human body called the cortical homunculus, where greater areas of the cortex are dedicated to parts of the ...

Two researchers — Dr. Calvin Coffey and Dr. Peter O'Leary — are forever changing the way we understand an important tissue in the human body called the mesentery. In a recent study ...