10 Monumental Historical Misconceptions About The Female Body

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. I understand but, I think women have always looked to other women and have not always

taken the man just at his word alone. Midwives come immediately to mind.
anatomy and physiology. medicine and science. we all got it wrong and are all still learning.
Just this past year a "new" ligament in the knee was "discovered" ....

Phys Ed November 13, 2013, 12:01 am
Doctors Identify a New Knee Ligament
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Last month, knee surgeons from the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium announced that they had found a new knee ligament, one that had not previously been specifically identified despite untold numbers of past knee dissections and scans. This surprising announcement, in The Journal of Anatomy, should improve our understanding of how the knee works and why some knee surgeries disappoint and also underscores the continually astonishing complexity of human anatomy.

To find and characterize this new knee part, the orthopedic surgeons Dr. Steven Claes and Dr. Johann Bellemans and their colleagues gathered 41 knee joints from human cadavers and began minutely dissecting them.

The knee, as those of us who own and operate a pair know, is complicated and somewhat fragile, an intricate construction of bones, cartilage, fluids, ligaments (which attach bones to bones) and tendons (which attach muscles to bones). Ideally, the various parts move together smoothly, but they can tear, rupture or fracture if the knee abruptly twists or overpivots. Knee injuries and pain drive millions of people to doctors every year and result in millions of knee exams, scans and surgeries.
The newly identified anterolateral ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes the knee, researchers say, but can be easily injured, contributing to knee problems.The Journal of Anatomy The newly identified anterolateral ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes the knee, researchers say, but can be easily injured, contributing to knee problems.

So most of us probably have assumed that the entire internal structure of the knee has been fully mapped and delineated.


The Journal of Anatomy
The newly identified anterolateral ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes the knee,
researchers say, but can be easily injured, contributing to knee problems.

more at link:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/a-surprising-discovery-a-new-knee-ligament/