Body Parts
- GI tract
- tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination
- incompetent cervix
- (obstetrics) uterine cervix that becomes dilated before term and without labor often resulting in miscarriage or premature birth
- archenteron
- central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity
- anvil
- the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
- brachial vein
- two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein
- medulla
- the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal
- eyelid
- either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- reflex arc
- the neural path of a reflex
- cerebellum
- a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans
- mastoid process
- process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull
- pug nose
- a short nose; flattened and turned up at the end
- haemal arch
- a structure arising ventrally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the caudal blood vessels
- pleura
- the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest
- deep temporal vein
- temporal veins that empty into the pterygoid plexus
- puppy fat
- fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence
- palm
- the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers
- antagonist
- a muscle that relaxes while another contracts
- olecranon
- process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended
- right hemisphere
- the cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body
- great saphenous vein
- the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein
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