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Should the annular tendon of the eye be named 'annulus of Zinn' or 'of Valsalva'?

Fabio Zampieri1, Daniela Marrone, Alberto Zanatta.   

Abstract

The annular tendon is commonly named 'annulus of Zinn', from the German anatomist and botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759) who described this structure in his Descriptio anatomica oculi humani (Anatomical Description of the Human Eye, 1755). This structure, however, had been previously discovered not by Zinn, but by Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666-1723) some decades before the publication of Zinn, in his Dissertatio anatomica prima and Dissertatio anatomica altera (First and Second Anatomical Dissertations), inside Valsalva's Opera omnia published in 1740. We advance that this structure could be re-named such as 'annulus of Valsalva-Zinn' because Valsalva, even making a mistake in its functional interpretation, first described this anatomical structure. Likewise, Valsalva, with his discovery, advanced a revolutionary idea for that time on the usefulness of anatomy for clinic and pathology.
© 2014 Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica Foundation. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Keywords:  Antonio Valsalva; anatomical nomenclature; annular tendon; annulus of Zinn; eye anatomy

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Year:  2014        PMID: 24697862     DOI: 10.1111/aos.12400

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Acta Ophthalmol        ISSN: 1755-375X            Impact factor:   3.761


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