Nouns denoting body parts
- crown
- the top of the head
- serratus posterior superior
- a thin quadrilateral muscle of the upper and dorsal part of the thorax; acts to elevate the upper ribs
- communicating artery
- any of three arteries in the brain that make up the circle of Willis
- lymphatic vessel
- a vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulation
- corium
- the deep vascular inner layer of the skin
- pug nose
- a short nose; flattened and turned up at the end
- rotator cuff
- a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move
- auricula atrii
- a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart
- corpus amygdaloideum
- an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamus and the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus; as part of the limbic system it plays an important role in motivation and emotional behavior
- skin graft
- a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn
- bucktooth
- a large projecting front tooth
- hamstring
- one of the tendons at the back of the knee
- isogamete
- either of a pair of conjugating gametes of the same size and structure
- pharyngeal vein
- veins from the pharyngeal plexus that empty into the internal jugular vein
- perilymph
- the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
- organ of Corti
- the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves
- bandyleg
- a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)
- round bone
- bones that are round in shape
- zona pellucida
- thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus
- tendon of Achilles
- a large tendon that runs from the heel to the calf
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