Mark Gerstein

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And the smallest muscle in the body, which is used to abduct the little toe, is the abductor ossis metatarsi digiti quinti minimi. I think it sounds like a poem. (With the first wave of the Harry Potter generation now coming up through medical school, perhaps soon we’ll finally start hearing these terms pronounced with more of the relish they deserve.)
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
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