écorché

[prettygoodword]

écorché or ecorche (ey-kawr-SHAY) - n., an anatomical model or illustration a body with the skin removed.


To allow study of the underlying musculature or, in art, as a figure study for a work or as a training exercise. Adopted in the 19th century from French, where it literally means skinned/flayed.



---L.

Comments

[med_cat]

Interesting, I didn't know there was a word for this

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Neither did I.

[med_cat]

I knew the word in Russian, but not in English :)

Or, actually, the Russian word is the same as for any anatomical model:

муляж