STEREOMORPHOLOGY: HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

The article shows that not only the health of the nation, but also the future of the peoples throughout the world  and the future of the planet itself depends on the development of science and the quality of professional training of those providing the modern scientific process. The article highlights the stages of scientific anatomy, the results and prospects of its development. The goals, objectives, methods and results of our own research are identified on the basis of the stereomorphological method for studying hollow and parenchymal internal organs and glands. The article presents a unique technique that enables to obtain a three-dimensional view of the vessels of the human body, contributing to the spatial perception of the architectonics of the extra- and intraorgan blood channel, the injection-corrosion method, developed by the Dutch scientist F. Ruysch. It has been noted that the originality of the museum of the Department of Human Anatomy, Ukrainian Medical Dental Academy, is in its rich collection of injection and corrosion preparations of the internal organs of humans and animals. This classic technique, taking into account individual modifications, enables to get an accurate high-quality volumetric copy of the bloodstream of the internal organ or casts of the walls of a hollow organ, suitable for further morphological studies. Using the example of injection-corrosive preparations of the bloodstream of the human stomach, the features of its stereo-angioarchitectonics were investigated. The article highlights the methodology for stereological study of the prostate, large and small salivary and lacrimal glands, used by the researchers of the Department of Human Anatomy, Ukrainian Medical Dental Academy. In particular, the results of three-dimensional plastic reconstruction have been described using the example of human epithelial structures of the prostate gland and small salivary, lacrimal glands.