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Fear of Another Kind. Juxtapositions of paintings also suggest hitherto unexpected correspondences. In the decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...
...More specifically, certain spots in the pancreas, known for their anatomist-discoverer as "the islets of Langerhans...
Cytologists (cell scientists) had known since the early 1900s that some animal cells studied under the microscope contain a little dark spot that others lack. Yet not until 1949 did Canadian Neuro-Anatomist Murray L. Barr realize that the spots, which he was studying in cats' nerve cells, appear only in cells from females. Later research showed that the spots, now known as "Barr bodies" or sex chromatin, consisted of one X chromosome - the one that is inactivated after it has done its job of helping to determine femaleness...
...Anatomist James A. Miller Jr. this seemed like one case in which common sense was dead wrong. Since the brain's extraction of oxygen from the blood is a biochemical process, Miller figured that a cooled brain will consume less oxygen, and be in less danger of damage from oxygen deprivation, than a warmed brain. Working with his wife Faith, also an anatomist, and using guinea pigs at Atlanta's Emory University, Dr. Miller found what he considered proof of his reasoning...
...Best-known example: Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled with fluid, and disappear at the gentlest touch of the anatomist's probe...