Ivory female anatomical figure on a wooden pedestal, Europe, undated
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Standing on a wooden pedestal is a pregnant woman carved from ivory. When the torso is removed, some of the internal organs can be seen. Female anatomical figures models were almost always shown as pregnant.
Object number:
A129327
Related Themes and Topics
Glossary:
Glossary: anatomical figure
Highly detailed models of the full human figure for artists, teachers and medical practitioners.
Glossary: pregnancy
The condition of having a developing unborn embryo or foetus in the body. A human pregnancy is usually of 40 weeks gestation.
Glossary: anatomy
A branch of medical science concerned with the structure of living organisms.
Glossary: foetus
The name given to the embryo during the later stages of development. In human reproduction it refers to an unborn child from its eighth week of development.