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Fun Fact: incision

incision

Anatomy Def: Cut, opening, or slit in skin or flesh.

Outlander Def: Horrific wound in Rupert’s belly wall delivered by a sharp, sweeping redcoat blade at the Battle of Prestonpans!

Learn about incision wounds in Anatomy Lesson #35, Outlander Owies! – Part One. Learn the differences between incision wounds and lacerations!

Read about Jamie’s incision wound in Dragonfly in Amber book. Why Jamie? Because Rupert doesna suffer an incision wound in Diana’s books, so Jamie must do:

Leaving my head injury to mind himself for a moment, I stepped forward and opened the shirt, pulling it gently away from the injured side. Despite the quantity of blood, I knew it must not be a serious wound; he stood like a rock, and the blood no longer flowed. It was a saber-slash, slanting across the ribs. A lucky angle; straight in and it would have gone deep into the intercostal muscles between the ribs. As it was, an eight-inch flap of skin gaped loose, red beginning to ooze beneath it again with the release of pressure. It would take a goodly number of stitches to repair, but aside from the constant danger of infection, the wound was in no way serious.

See Rupert’s wound and watch Claire close it using a continuous, over and over surgical stitch in Starz episode 210, Prestonpans. Whew, many Highlanders are lucky that Claire went back through the stones!

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A deeply grateful,

Outlander Anatomist

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Fun Fact: patella

These canna be small potatoes! Nope, it’s the patella!

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Patella pa·tel·la,

sing. n patella; pl. n patellae

From Latin patina meaning shallow dish

First use: late 16th century

Anatomy def: The kneecap or kneepan; a shallow, conical-shaped bone which articulates with the femur and covers the knee joint.

Outlander def: Knee porn! “nuf said!

Learn about patella and knee joint by reading Anatomy Lesson #7, “Jamie’s Thighs or Ode to Joy!”

Read about the knees in Dragonfly in Amber. Quoting one of many great examples:

Jamie laced his hands together, elbows braced on his knees, and rested his chin on his linked knuckles. “This wilna be like France,” he said quietly. “Fighting there, ye risk no more than your life in battle. Here …” He hesitated, then went on. “Jenny, this is treason. If it goes wrong, those that follow the Stuarts are like to end on a scaffold.

Herself even specifies the knee cap. Again, from Dragonfly in Amber, Claire describes this sad scene:

”Mother Hildegarde wrapped her in a length of white satin,” I said, looking down at my fists, clenched in my lap. “Her eyes were closed. She hadn’t any lashes yet, but her eyes were slanted. I said they were like yours, but they said all babies’ eyes are like that.” Ten fingers, and ten toes. No nails, but the gleam of tiny joints, kneecaps and fingerbones like opals, like the jeweled bones of the earth itself. Remember man, that thou art dust.…

See a great patella on a handsome fella in Starz episode 208, The Fox’s Lair. Claire canna keep her hands off Jamie’s knee <G>!

A deeply grateful,

Outlander Anatomist

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Fun Fact: Frontalis

 

Anatomy def: Frontalis muscles  lift the eyebrows and wrinkle the forehead 

Outlander def: Fergus! Ye are needed and loved says Jamie. 😥

Frontalis is derived from the Latin word frons meaning “front” or “forehead.”

Frontalis is pronounced as:  fron·ta·lis \ˌfrən-ˈtā-ləs\

Frontalis are paired muscles of facial expression, one of about 20 pairs! Their only purpose in humans is to convey emotion.

Frontalis muscles cover the forehead. They are flat, thin, four-sided (quadrilateral) muscles that arise from connective tissue of the scalp and end in skin above the eyebrows and nose (next image).

If contracted, these muscles lift the eyebrows and wrinkle forehead skin, conveying strong emotions such as concern, worry, surprise, concentration, and anger. 

Learn more about frontalis muscles in Anatomy Lesson #11, “Jamie’s Face or Ye do it Face to Face?” 

Read about Jamie’s forehead in Diana’s sixth big book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes:

I had the oddest feeling, then—as though the strength he had clung to had now been let go … and was flowing into me. My tenuous grip on my own body firmed as I held his, and my heart ceased wavering, taking up instead its normal solid, tireless beating.

The tears had retreated, though they were precariously near the surface. I traced the lines of his face with my fingers, ruddy bronze and lined with sun and care; the high forehead with its thick auburn brows, and the broad planes of his cheek, the long straight nose, straight as a blade. The closed eyes, slanted and mysterious with those odd lashes of his, blond at the root, so deep an auburn at the tips as to seem almost black.

“Don’t you know?” I said very softly, tracing the small, neat line of his ear. Tiny, stiff blond hairs sprouted in a tiny whorl from the tagus, tickling my finger. “Don’t any of you know? That it’s you. Not what you can give, or do, or provide. Just you.”

Do Claire’s murmurings sound familiar? Jamie uses nearly the same words to encourage Fergus after his suicide attempt.

See Jamie wrinkle his brow at Fergus in Outlander episode 603, Tolerance.

Join the Outlanderbts lasses as we discuss Outlander episode 603!

The deeply grateful,

Outlander Anatomist

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