Articles about Laura’s medical illustration projects on the Medimagery Website:
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Stages of Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease Illustrated
Medimagery Medical Illustration
Illustrated Stages of atherosclerotic Plague Development. Atherosclerosis is a vascular destructive condition of the blood vessel so that the wall of an artery holds an accumulation of a cholesterol-based materials. “Arthero” refers to the artery. “-sclerosis” means hardening or loss of elasticity of a blood vessel. This is a digital
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Organelles: Components of the Human Cell
Medimagery Medical Illustration
The Human Cell: Cell Illustration If you shrunk your body three million times you would be surrounded by 30 trillion cells made up of DNA from your own body. But as most of these cells are red blood cells, there are only 5 trillion tissue cells. You would soon notice, via
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Illustrated Gastric Stomach Layers: The Three Layers of the Stomach
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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 different function.
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Medical Illustrations of Abdominal Organs & Digestive System
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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.
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Liver Resection Illustrations: Laparoscopic Left Lateral Liver Sectionectomy
Medimagery Medical Illustration
Surgical Liver 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 Maaske - Medimagery LLC
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Illustrated Human Skeleton
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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 stature of the human body, transmitting weight to the other regions of the body. It includes the vertebral column, the
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Illustrated Inflammation & Pathology of Acne | Acne Development Illustrations
Medimagery Medical Illustration
Acne vulgaris, simply known asacne, is a progressive skin disease in which the sebaceous glands of hair follicles are clogged with oil from the skin (sebum) and dead skin cells. It is diagnosed with the appearance of characteristic whiteheads, seborrhea (increased oil-sebum secretion), blackheads, pimples, oily skin, and occasional scarring
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Visions of the Prenatal Development: Human Embryo & Fetal Illustrations
Medimagery Medical Illustration
The embryo illustrations and fetus 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 each week vital information about development is offered, along with a comparatively sized vegetable
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Brain Anatomy & Illustration | Metaphors in Medicine
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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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Gastric Surgery Illustrations: Laparoscopic Intra-Gastric Resection for Submucosal Proximal Gastric Tumor
Medimagery Medical Illustration
drew the surgical illustrations below to reveal a specific technique for a surgical resection procedure to remove a stomach tumor. The procedure is a Laparoscopic Intra-Gastric Resection for Submucosal Proximal Gastric Tumor. My illustrations reflect the particular surgical approach taken by Dr. Julie Hellet of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
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Illustrating the Lateral Approach to the Left Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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 middle-aged adult women. Surgeons aim to preserve as many of the critical splenic and pancreatic vessels as possible.
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An Illustrated Ovarian Transposition: Oophoropexy
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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 safely performed. Later in her life, the surgeon may move the ovary back to its
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Medical Illustration Gallery
Medimagery Medical Illustration
Here are just a few of the medical illustrations I've prepared for clients. Feel free to contact me with any questions about the illustrations or about pricing.
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Spermatogenesis, the Development of Sperm, and the Sketch to Illustration Process
Medimagery Medical Illustration
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 the dramatic life of a cell, you will after watching this:
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Ideas I’d Like for Medical Illustrations
Medimagery Medical Illustration
Recently I read that our digestive tract have more neurons than a domestic cat has in its whole brain. So when I read that microbes in our guts may be controlling the moods we experience in our brains, it came as not such a surprise. The particular strain of microbes
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The Pull to the Countryside
Medimagery Medical Illustration, Topics Outside Medical Illustration
Centralized Healthcare. Drawing Physicians to Rural America with the AHA. Written & illustrated by Laura Maaske, MSc.BMC, Medical Illustrator & Medical Animator| e-Textbook Design This October 1st opened enrollment of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA), which is the most sweeping social change for Americans since the Social Security Act
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Untying the Knot of Human Heart Formation: Your Heart is a Double Helix Spiral, Unfolds Along Embryo Heart Folding Patterns
Medimagery Medical Illustration
When I looked at the heart for the first time I saw a circumferential basal loop. And then I saw a descending limb and an ascending limb. And they curl around each other at a helix and a vortex, except for the ventricle. And the angles at which they go is about 60
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Science Fiction No Longer: Mind controlled Robotic Limbs
Medimagery Medical Illustration, Topics Outside Medical Illustration
They’re Here! An early September morning, apples ripe out my window. I was speaking with Dr. Albert Chi, a pioneering surgeon for advanced prostheti ...
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A Line to my Heart: My Career and Life as a Medical Illustrator
Medimagery Medical Illustration
As a student medical illustrator, I knew what I wanted to learn. I wanted to wrap my mind around the science and the drawing skills I would require in the future. I already had an undergraduate degree in zoology, and our courses in the Division of Biomedical Communications were to
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Illustrated Hirschsprung’s Disease
Medimagery Medical Illustration
Hirschsprung's Disease is a childhood gastrointestinal disorder which is often treated surgically. Surgical treatments do not always repair or correct the enterocolitis and debilitating constipation, but it does offer relief. The disease is named after Harold Hirschsprung, who was the first to describe th condition in 1886. The APHS, for
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Nature & Patterns | Science, Medicine, Art, & Photography
Medimagery Medical Illustration
What can we learn about the design of the universe, as we look to the body for clues? My question finds me at a somewhat broken place where I have observed a great deal of disconnectedness. But recently I am beginning to observe in those same patterns, a common architecture.
