Word of the Day
Ulna (UHL-nuh)
Common clues: Inner forearm bone; Humerus neighbor; Arm bone
Definition: the bone on the little-finger side of the human forearm – the thinner and longer of the two bones.
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Vinci, Arm Study, c. 1510
ROME — A forgotten workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, complete with 500-year-old frescoes and a secret room for dissecting human cadavers, has been discovered in Florence, Italy, researchers said Tuesday.
The walls of the workshop
were adorned with paintings of birds, one of which strongly
resembled a sketch from Da Vinci's "Atlantic Codex," a
1,286-page collection of drawings and writings by the painter,
sculptor, inventor and scientist. Another painting was similar to
a drawing in Da Vinci's codex on the flight of birds.
Manescalchi speculated that Da Vinci had assistants in his
workshop and probably used a secret corner room for his
dissections of human corpses — part of his endeavor to
improve his understanding of the human anatomy.
[Source: latimes.com, January 29, 2005]
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