This article originally posted on June 22, 2016. It was updated on May 29, 2024. When designing machines, an understanding of anatomical terms such as medial and lateral, proximal and distal, and ...

There are a paucity of data in the literature regarding the natural history in patients with subclavian artery occlusive disease. The left subclavian artery is more frequently involved than the right, ...

The colon is often thought of as one organ, but the right and left parts of the colon have different molecular features in cancers. New research in mice from investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs when a blood clot forms in a large (deep) vein. Proximal DVTs occur in deep veins above the knee and isolated, distal DVTs can occur when smaller blood clots form in ...

From insects to mammals, a small set of genes and proteins controls the orientation of the body’s cells and tissues Building a body is not simple. Fish, frogs and people all start from a single cell ...