Carl Toldt, sometimes Karl Toldt (3 May 1840 – 13 November 1920) was an Austrian

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...

who was a native of

Bruneck Bruneck (; or Ladin language, Ladin: ''Bornech'' or ''Burnech''; or ''Brunopolis'') is the largest town in the Puster Valley in the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. Geography Bruneck rises up in the middle of a wide valley (perhaps a ...

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. In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate in

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, and was later a professor of

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and

. He was the author of the popular "''Anatomischer Atlas für Studirende und Ärzte''"
"An atlas of human anatomy for students and physicians"
, a work that was later translated into English. His name is lent to the following four anatomical eponyms: *

Toldt's fascia Toldt's fascia, is a discrete layer of connective tissue containing lymphatic channels. It is found between the two mesothelial layers that separate the mesocolon from the underlying retroperitoneum. It was first described by the Austrian anatomist ...

: Continuation of Treitz's

fascia A fascia (; : fasciae or fascias; adjective fascial; ) is a generic term for macroscopic membranous bodily structures. Fasciae are classified as superficial, visceral or deep, and further designated according to their anatomical location. ...

behind the body of the

pancreas The pancreas (plural pancreases, or pancreata) is an Organ (anatomy), organ of the Digestion, digestive system and endocrine system of vertebrates. In humans, it is located in the abdominal cavity, abdomen behind the stomach and functions as a ...

. * "Toldt's fascia flap": A recent technique for repairing large

diaphragmatic The thoracic diaphragm, or simply the diaphragm (; ), is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in humans and other mammals that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity. The diaphragm is the most important muscle of respiration, and separ ...

hernia A hernia (: hernias or herniae, from Latin, meaning 'rupture') is the abnormal exit of tissue or an organ (anatomy), organ, such as the bowel, through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides. The term is also used for the normal Devel ...

s. * "Toldt's membrane": The anterior layer of the

renal fascia The renal fascia is a dense, elastic connective tissue envelope enclosing the kidney and adrenal gland, together with the layer of perirenal fat surrounding these two. The renal fascia separates the adipose capsule of kidney from the overlying ...

. * "White line of Toldt": Lateral reflection of posterior

parietal peritoneum The peritoneum is the serous membrane forming the lining of the abdominal cavity or coelom in amniotes and some invertebrates, such as annelids. It covers most of the intra-abdominal (or coelomic) organs, and is composed of a layer of mesothe ...

abdomen The abdomen (colloquially called the gut, belly, tummy, midriff, tucky, or stomach) is the front part of the torso between the thorax (chest) and pelvis in humans and in other vertebrates. The area occupied by the abdomen is called the abdominal ...

over the

mesentery In human anatomy, the mesentery is an Organ (anatomy), organ that attaches the intestines to the posterior abdominal wall, consisting of a double fold of the peritoneum. It helps (among other functions) in storing Adipose tissue, fat and allowi ...

of the ascending and

descending colon In the anatomy of humans and homologous primates, the descending colon is the part of the colon extending from the left colic flexure to the level of the iliac crest (whereupon it transitions into the sigmoid colon). The function of the descen ...

. The white line of Toldt represents the avascular plane for incision and is the anterior confluence of the colonic visceral peritoneum with the parietal peritoneum of the lateral abdominal wall. In 1932 ''Karl-Toldt-Weg'' in Vienna's District 14 ( Penzing) was named in his honor.Straßennamen: 14. Bezirk
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References

* ''Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the

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* Anatomists from Austria-Hungary 20th-century Austrian biologists 19th-century Austrian biologists 1840 births 1920 deaths Academic staff of the University of Vienna People from Bruneck Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{Austria-med-bio-stub