[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948) › c8.219 # Hindu Medicine c8.219 Hindu Medicine c8.219 - **Language:** English ### [c8.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.219) The firm parts of the body, hair, beard, body-hair, bones, nails, teeth, vessels (sirā), tendons and muscles, tubular canals (dhamanī, comprising veins and nerves), and the seed derive from the father; the soft parts, flesh, blood, fat, marrow, the heart, the navel, the liver, the spleen, the anus and so forth, derive from the mother. - [Previous: c8.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.218) - [Next: c8.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.220) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.219) · Pramāṇa