Antonio Scarpa
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Antonio Scarpa (born May 9, 1752, in Lorenzaga di Motta di Livenza; died October 31, 1832, in Pavia) was an Italian anatomist and professor at Pavia and Modena.
Scarpa began studying medicine at the age of fourteen. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Marc Antonio Caldani. Under the former, he became doctor of medicine on May 19, 1770; in 1772 he became professor at the University of Modena.
[edit] Eponyms
- Scarpa's fascia
- Scarpa's fluid
- Scarpa's foramina
- Scarpa's ganglion
- Scarpa's hiatus
- Scarpa's membrane
- Scarpa's sheath
- Scarpa's shoe
- Scarpa's staphyloma
- Scarpa's triangle