Henry Alan Lawson Skinner (September 26, 1899, in Erin, Ontario – ?)[1] was a Canadian anatomist and classical scholar[2] who wrote The Origin of Medical Terms, published by The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore in 1949. He received his M.B from Toronto,[3] and was appointed assistant professor of Anatomy at the University of Western Ontario in 1929.[4] By 1963, he had risen to Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at Western Ontario.[3]