At anatomy dinners, experts delve into how body parts function in both animals and people, and explain how the part is turned into food. (Photo: Jason Bartlett) When Dr. Jonathan Reisman was in ...

The scrotum is a sac of skin that hangs from the body at the front of the pelvis, between the legs. It sits next to the upper thighs, just below the penis. The scrotum contains the testicles. These ...

Dear Reader: When a baby boy is an embryo, the testicles form in the lower part of the abdomen (the pelvis). In the weeks before the baby is born, the testicles move down out of the pelvis into a sac ...

When Dr. Jonathan Reisman was in medical school, he unexpectedly found himself thinking about food while dissecting a human cadaver. During the dissection, his professor talked about which parts of ...