The Anatomy Purist

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Anatomy without agenda. Pure, deep, surgical. The Anatomy Purist is for surgeons, students, and anyone who loves anatomy beyond the knife. Each episode takes one structure, one region, or one concept and dissects it properly: the embryology, the etymology, the clinical evolution, the surgical history. No revision cards. No question banks. No shortcuts. If you’re preparing for MRCS, visit anatomym8.com for the structured audio series, handbook, and question bank built to take everything here and make it examinable.

Episodes

  1. Sep 3

    Episode 5: Innvervation. Why does my LA keep failing?

    Episode 5 of The Anatomy Purist. Dev opens with a block that failed in an abscess and works back through the innervation of the skin: the four cutaneous mechanoreceptors, including the one that is not encapsulated; the real two-point discrimination bands and Lundborg and Rosén’s case against trusting them; why innocuous cold travels on A-delta and not C fibres; the dermatome map problem almost nobody teaches; why local anaesthetic really fails in infected tissue, which is not simply pH; Seddon versus Sunderland; and what nerve coaptation in a sensate flap actually buys you. AnatomyM8.com Every reference verified, every unverifiable claim flagged as unverifiable. REFERENCES Standring S, editor. Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. 42nd Ed. London: Elsevier; 2020.Johnson KO. The roles and functions of cutaneous mechanoreceptors. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2001; 11(4):455-61. PMID: 11502392. doi:10.1016/s0959-4388(00)00234-8.Johansson RS, Flanagan JR. Coding and use of tactile signals from the fingertips in object manipulation tasks. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009;10(5):345-59. PMID: 19352402. doi:10.1038/nrn2621.Purves D, Augustine GJ, Fitzpatrick D, et al., editors. Neuroscience. 2nd ed. Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates; 2001. Chapter: Mechanoreceptors Specialized to Receive Tactile Information. NCBI Bookshelf ID: NBK10895.Treede RD, Meyer RA, Campbell JN. Evidence for two different heat transduction mechanisms in nociceptive primary afferents innervating monkey skin. J Physiol. 1995;483(Pt 3):747-58. PMID: 7776255.Yarnitsky D, Ochoa JL. Release of cold-induced burning pain by block of cold-specific afferent input. Brain. 1990;113(Pt 4):893-902. PMID: 2397391. doi:10.1093/brain/113.4.893.McKemy DD. The molecular and cellular basis of cold sensation. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2013;4(2):238-47. PMID:3421674.Lee MWL, McPhee RW, Stringer MD. An evidence-based approach to human dermatomes. Clin Anat. 008; 21(5):363-73. PMID: 18470936. doi:10.1002/ca.20636.Seddon HJ. Three types of nerve injury. Brain. 1943; 66(4):237-88. doi:10.1093/brain/66.4.237.Sunderland S. A classification of peripheral nerve injuries producing loss of function. Brain. 1951; 74(4):491-516. PMID: 14895767. doi:10.1093/brain/74.4.491.Mackinnon SE, Dellon AL. Surgery of the Peripheral Nerve. New York: Thieme; 1988. Dellon AL. Evaluation of Sensibility and Re-education of Sensation in the Hand. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1981. Lundborg G, Rosén B. The two-point discrimination test — time for a re-appraisal? J Hand Surg Br. 2004; 29(5):418-22. PMID: 15336741. doi:10.1016/j.jhsb.2004.02.008. Punnia-Moorthy A. Buffering capacity of normal and inflamed tissues following the injection of local anaesthetic solutions. Br J Anaesth. 1988;61(2):154-9. PMID: 3415887. doi:10.1093/bja/61.2.154. Ueno T, Tsuchiya H, Mizogami M, Takakura K. Local anesthetic failure associated with inflammation: verification of the acidosis mechanism and the hypothetic participation of inflammatory peroxynitrite. J Inflamm Res. 2008;1:41-8. PMID: 22096346. doi:10.2147/jir.s3982.Kabakcı AG, Bozkır MG. Dimension, location and clinical importance of supraorbital foramen and notch: a combined cadaveric and dry skull study. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2025;49(1):322-33. Epub 2024 Jul 1. PMID: 38951229. doi:10.1007/00266-024-04196-7.Santanelli F, Tenna S, Pace A, Scuderi N. Free flap reconstruction of the sole of the foot with or without sensory nerve coaptation. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2002;109(7):2314-22. PMID: 12045556. doi:10.1097/00006534-200206000-00023.Neurapraxia. In: StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing. NCBI Bookshelf ID: NBK560501.

  2. May 9

    Episode 4. Blood Supply: The Plexus System & The Perforator Revolution

    Episode 4 of The Anatomy Purist. Dev breaks down the blood supply to skin, the plexus system from deep fascia to papillary dermis, random versus axial flap supply, and the work of Taylor and Palmer in 1987 that gave us the angiosome concept and changed reconstructive surgery permanently. Covering perforator classification, the DIEP flap, and the clinical failure that anatomy could have predicted. AnatomyM8.com.

  3. Apr 20

    Episode 3. The Dermis: Where your scars are written.

    Episode 3 of The The Anatomy Purist, Dev takes you into the dermis. Two zones, two collagen types, and a set of lines that Karl Langer mapped on cadavers in 1861 that still determine whether your incision scars or disappears. Covering the papillary and reticular dermis, Langer's lines, the biology of collagen remodelling, solar elastosis, and why full-thickness grafts contract less than split-thickness. AnatomyM8.com.

  4. Apr 10

    Episode 2: Langer's Lines

    Every time you plan an incision, you make a decision. Buthow many surgeons understand the structural logic behind that decision? In this episode, Dev explores Langer's lines, the collagenorientation maps first described by Viennese anatomist Karl Langer in 1861 using a circular awl and a set of cadavers. The history of how he discovered them, the century-long controversy they provoked, and what surgeons shouldactually be using in theatre today. The Anatomy Purist is for surgeons, trainees, and students whose love for anatomy goes far beyond the knife. ⁠AnatomyM8⁠- Anatomy, for the love of it.

  5. Apr 9

    Episode 1: The Skin

    Anatomy is poorly taught and often considered a tickbox exercise for students. Crammed for examinations, reproduced on diagrams, and quietly forgotten. But the forgetting has consequences and nowhere is this more apparent than in the largest organ in the body. In this first episode, Dev explores the Skin as a surgically applied subject: the avascular epidermis, the vascular architecture of the dermis, and the story of how Ian Taylor’s angiosome concept transformed reconstructive surgery in 1987, and why understanding it begins not in the operating theatre but here, with the anatomy that was always worth knowing properly. The Anatomy Purist is for surgeons, trainees, and students whose love for anatomy goes far beyond the knife. AnatomyM8- Anatomy, for the love of it.

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Anatomy without agenda. Pure, deep, surgical. The Anatomy Purist is for surgeons, students, and anyone who loves anatomy beyond the knife. Each episode takes one structure, one region, or one concept and dissects it properly: the embryology, the etymology, the clinical evolution, the surgical history. No revision cards. No question banks. No shortcuts. If you’re preparing for MRCS, visit anatomym8.com for the structured audio series, handbook, and question bank built to take everything here and make it examinable.

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    2026
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