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History shows that most organs, but not their coherence and function, were known by medieval scientists. The swing-over occurred in Italy in the sixteenth century in the universities of Padua and Bologna. Due to the dissections of human bodies, which demonstrated the interrelations between human organs, critical reviews, and new findings originated. The Dutch seventeenth century research completed the needed anatomical understanding, but the human bony pelvis was misleadingly depicted and described by Van Deventer. It is remarkable that these incorrect pelvic ideas still pertain up until today.

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Marani, E., Koch, W.F. (2014). History. In: The Pelvis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40006-3_4

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