Xavier Bichat
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Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissu
Portrait of Bichat by Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine, 1799
Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Desault (left) and title page from Bichat's Surgical Works of Desault, 2nd ed (right)
Title page of Traité des membranes
The Hôtel-Dieu of Paris (drawn c. 1830)
Buccal fat pad
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The buccal fat pad is one of several encapsulated fat masses in the cheek. It is a deep fat pad located on either side of the face between the buccinator muscle and several more superficial muscles. T
Xavier Bichat
…is a central element in human anatomy, and he considered organs as collections of often disparate tissues, rather than as entities in themselves". The buccal fat pad (also called Bichat’s fat pad) was named after him. Although Bichat was "hardly known outside the French medical world" at the time of his early death…
Extracted buccal fat
Buccal fat pad diagram
The buccal fat pads are clearly visible on the cheeks of children of different age, complexion and constitution.
Location of Buccal Fat Pad