Antonio Scarpa

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.

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

External links

• Extensive biography