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Dissecting the Grinch: what anatomy reveals about Christmas’s most famous villain

Dissecting the Grinch: what anatomy reveals about Christmas’s most famous villain

From broad cheekbones and a flexible back to a small prefrontal cortex, here’s everything an anatomist thinks makes the Grinch so one-of-a-kind.

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Lucy E. Hyde

How anatomical names can carry hidden histories of power and exclusion

Why is your ankle named after a Greek hero and your uterus after a Renaissance anatomist? The answer says as much about power and memory as it does...

27.10.2025 3

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The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent

They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their...

13.10.2025 4

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