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I think, if you check a dictionary, you might just be able to disabuse yourself of that folk etymology.
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I came across something that really amused me in
The Australian Newspaper. A Dr. Adam Taor writes a column on
Body Parts you've never heard of.
Last week it was the "Rectouterine Pouch". It is a membrane stretched over the lowest part of a woman's peritoneum. It fits in front of the rectum and behind the uterus hence the name rectouterine
So far so good, but what tickled me was where the word came from
"Your rectum was named after the
Latin word '
rectus', which means
straight; its also the origin of the words rectangle and erection. But your rectum isn't straight; this part of your bowel was named by ancient anatomists who'd dissected only animals whose rectum really was straight"
Of course the Christian church forbade cutting and examining dead human bodies (Till the 15/16Cs?). I think Islamic doctors too were not able to examine human bodies.
