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Changing Trees to Bamboo

“The human brain is a spectacular pattern-maker, […]

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Designing for Delicious Street Food

This is a branding concept I offered to the new Milwauk […]

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Flipping the Medical School Classroom

The high-tech future of medical education Was your medi […]

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Untying the Knot: Your Heart is actually a Spiral

The heart is, “an arrangement so unusual and perplexing […]

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The Pull to the Countryside

Drawing Physicians to Rural America with the AHA This O […]

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Another Artist Seeking Patterns in Nature…

“Beauty and seduction are natures tools of surviv […]

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Medical Illustration Gallery

Here are just a few of the medical illustrations I̵ […]

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Ideas I’d like to Illustrate: any Takers?…

Recently I read that our digestive tract have more neur […]

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Best Online Resources to Understand Cell Division, Meiosis, & Mitosis

Although I am an illustrator, I am still always looking for beautifully prepared animations and illustrations. This one is an evocative display of cell division. If you didn't already have a sense of...

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Textbooks Make a Leap

“The most important development in the world of literature after Gutenberg is the electronic book, or e-book” -Siriginidi Subba Rao Breaking into a New World The Love of Turning Pages It’s not a fair...

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The Mystery of Wrinkled Icicles: Solved

It's still cold here in the Midwest and not yet through our arctic winter, but with all the cold has come this beautiful array of icicles not yet melting. I have just learned that icicles are smooth if...

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An Alphabet for Grasses: Painting Complex & Simple

The Aleph is the first stroke of the universe. Back before I stumbled upon a “first stroke” of my own, I thought of the Aleph as a tree. It was like the solid base of a trunk: the source. This is not...

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Sweet April Pond Songs

 A chorus of birds and frogs, at sunset last night. It’s a simple thing to post about. But after the unrelenting cold of this unusual winter past, I feel a particular joy in the warmth of spring. This...

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An Illustrated Ovarian Transposition: Oophoropexy

I created this surgical illustration series on the oophoropexy, or ovarian transposition. This is a surgery in which a woman's ovary is moved to a different part of her abdomen so that radiation can be...

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An Illustrated Laparoscopic Left Lateral Liver Sectionectomy

Here is my latest surgical illustration series of the Laparoscopic Left Lateral Liver Sectionectomy. I am illustrating for Dr. Shiva Jayaraman of St. Joseph's Health Center, Toronto. © 2105 Laura...

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Illustrating the Lateral Approach to the Left Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy

The Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy is a surgical procedure performed to remove both solid and cystic tumors from the distal pancreas. Tumors of this type to this area of the pancreas usually affect...

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Surgical Illustration Series: Laparoscopic Intra-Gastric Resection for...

Surgical Procedure Written and illustrated by Laura Maaske, MSc.BMC, Biomedical Visualizer I drew the surgical illustrations below to reveal a specific surgical procedure to remove a stomach tumor. The...

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Personal Photographic Explorations

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein It may seem disjointed to combine with my work as a medical artist on this site with my personal photography....

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Metaphors in Medicine…

The hippocampus is to your brain just as the keyboard is to the computer's hard drive. The hippocampus is not where your memories are stored. But you depend on it to store memories.

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Visions of the Prenatal Development: Human Embryo & Fetal Illustrations

The illustrations in the video above reveal fetal development beginning at 6 weeks of gestational age and progressing through each week, with summary text, until the final 40th week of pregnancy. At...

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Illustrated Inflammation & Pathology of Acne | Acne Development Illustrations

Light Acne © 2015 Galderma. Illustrated by Laura Maaske   Acne Illustrations Written and illustrated by Laura Maaske, MSc.BMC, Medical Illustrator & Medical Animator   Acne vulgaris, simply known...

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What is a Medical Illustrator? About the Career of Medical Illustration

Medical illustrators specializes in visual representations of medicine & science in digital art, physical modeling, 2d and 3d animation and modeling, & app developme?nt The post What is a...

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Illustrated Human Skeleton

This is a medical illustration drawing of the human skeleton. The human skeleton has two major components: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The axial skeleton creates the upright...

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Making Complex Scientific Information Simple & Beautiful?

I’ve made a tiny educational video, for fun, to briefly explain my work as a medical illustrator. I hope you enjoy it!           ???????????????????????????? This is the heart of my work. Curiosity...

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Medical Illustration of the Eye: Cataracts

Human Vision: Cataract of the Eye Number of Americans age 40 and older who are affected by Cataracts 20.5 million Percent of Americans age 80 and older who have Cataracts 50 % Annual amount spent by...

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Medical Illustrations of Abdominal Organs & Digestive System

The digestive system has two main functions: (1) Convert food into nutrients your body needs, and (2) Rid the body of waste; its organs designed to digest. The post Medical Illustrations of Abdominal...

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Illustrated Gastric Stomach Layers: The Three Layers of the Stomach

3 smooth muscle layers of the stomach, together are called the muscularis externa. They are made up of (1) Outer longitudinal layer; (2) Middle circular layer; (3) Inner oblique layer. Each has a...

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Organelles: Components of the Human Cell

Today is my 20th anniversary as Laura Maaske – Medimagery LLC. I am grateful to a career and clients who have allowed me to be curious every day, and to render that curiosity in a way (I hope) to make...

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Type on Fire

  Typographic Explorations.   My love of letters came to me much later in life, as I’ve expressed in other posts. As a toddler, when I first saw the Roman Alphabet, I did not think the letters were...

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Effective Medical Legal Illustration & Personal Injury Illustration Trial...

The Best Medical Legal Exhibits: Medical Legal Illustration, Personal Injury Illustration & Medical Malpractice Illustration "I have become a believer in using medical illustrations as part of...

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