Carlo Giacomini (Sale, 29 November 1840 – Torino, 5 July 1898), was an Italian anatomist, neuroscientist, and a professor at the University of Turin who also made significant contributions in anthropology and embryology.[1] He worked with the physiologist, Angelo Mosso (1846-1910), which led to the first recording of human brain pulsations.[2] Giacomini vein, a lower limb vein,[3] and the band of Giacomini, a band of uncus gyri parahippocampalis he discovered in 1882,[4] and the Giacomini vertebrae are named after him.
He contributed anthropological research regarding differences among human races, and also took an interest in teratology linked to the various cases.
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- ^ Perrini, Paolo; Montemurro, Nicola; Iannelli, Aldo (2013). "The Contribution of Carlo Giacomini (1840–1898): The Limbus Giacomini and Beyond". Neurosurgery. 72 (3): 475–482. doi:10.1227/NEU.0b013e31827fcda3. PMID 23208067. S2CID 5218914.
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