Medicine, Anatomy, muscles and nerves

"Muskeln - Nerven - Muskeln" (muscles and nerves)

Male human muscles from rear and front and human nerval system from head to thighs.

Anonymous lithograph

Published in "Naturgeschichte und Abbildung der Menschen"

By Heinrich Rudolf Schinz.

Zurich, 1827

Original antique print 

Light general age toning. Very minor traces of age and use

Image ca. 22 x 23,5 cm (ca. 8.7 x 9.3")

Page size: 27,3 x 37.5 cm (ca. 10.7 14.8")
Muscle is contractile tissue grouped into coordinated systems for greater efficiency. The three types of muscles are striated (or skeletal), cardiac, and smooth (or nonstriated).
A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers called axons, in the peripheral nervous system. A nerve transmits electrical impulses and is the basic unit of the peripheral nervous system. A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses called action potentials that are transmitted along each of the axons to peripheral organs or, in the case of sensory nerves, from the periphery back to the central nervous system. Each axon within the nerve is an extension of an individual neuron, along with other supportive cells such as some Schwann cells that coat the axons in myelin.
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