Human Anatomy taught through the lens of the Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon and the Starz television series
Don’t be scairt of the sensory homunculus! Learn all about it in tomorrow’s Anatomy Lesson #57: Fergus and the Phantom Limb!
The deeply grateful,
Outlander Anatomist
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Starz episode 309, The doldrums
Anatomy def: Paired mentalis muscles arise from mandible and insert into skin of chin. These elevate and wrinkle chin skin and, when fully contracted, protrude the lower lip.
Outlander def: The “you-canna-tell-me-and-Fergus-what-to-do” muscles. Marsali is spectacular at wrinkling chin-skin as she glares at her step-father aboard the rocking Artemis. When an immovable object meets an unstoppable force – dinna mess with #defiantmarsali!
Learn about mentalis muscles in Antomy Lesson #26, Jamie’s Chin – Manly Mentus.
Because mentalis muscles wrinkle chin skin and protrude lower lip, these are sometimes termed the “pouting muscles.” Particularly useful to express doubt or displeasure! (See above: Marsali) <G>
Read about chins in Voyager book: pouty, pugnacious, stubbled, stubborn, thoughtful, pointed, expressive… Herself covers all the chin-bits because chins are very expressive facial structures. Aye? A great quote about Marsali’s chin. Pssst…… please lass, dinna address your step-mum this way! We love our Claire and you will, too. Give her a chance!
I was writing in our shared cabin, making surgical notes on a minor amputation—two smashed toes on one of the foredeck hands. I had just completed a drawing of the surgical site, when a shadow darkened the doorway of the cabin, and I looked up to see Marsali standing there, chin thrust out pugnaciously.
“I need to know something,” she said firmly. “I dinna like ye, and I reckon ye ken that, but Da says you’re a wisewoman, and I think you’re maybe an honest woman, even if ye are a whore, so you’ll maybe tell me.”
See Marsali’s pugnacious chin in Starz episode 309, The Doldrums, as she confronts Jamie (and later in the same episode, she confronts Claire). Ruined reputation or no, she will have her Frenchy-Fergus!
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Outlander Anatomist
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Photo Credit: Sony/Starz
Anatomy def: A dark-colored ring around the iris of the eye created by optical properties at the juncture between cornea and sclera.
Outlander def: Dark rings at the rims of Fergus’ (Claudel not being a verra manly name) irises as he beholds his beloved Laird.
Learn about limbal rings in Anatomy Lesson #31, “An Aye for an Eye – The Eye, Part 3.”
Read what Diana wrote about Fergus’ eyes in Dragonfly in Amber:
“Fergus?” I said, eyeing the boy, and trying to ignore the goings-on below. The lad was possibly nine or ten, but small for his age, and fine-boned as a ferret. Clad in clean, worn clothes several sizes too big for him, he was also as French as they come, with the pale, sallow skin and big, dark eyes of a Parisian street child.
See Fergus’ beautiful dark blue limbal rings in Starz episode 213, Dragonfly in Amber, as “milord” orders him to deliver the newly minted deed of Sasine to Lallybroch. I will not fail you, milord!” The end is nigh, sob!
A deeply grateful,
Outlander Anatomist