Body Parts
- muzzle
- forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose
- dorsum
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- webbed foot
- a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes
- salivary gland
- any of three pairs of glands in the mouth and digestive system that secrete saliva for digestion
- vena nasofrontalis
- a vein located in the anterior medial part of the orbit; connects the superior ophthalmic with the angular vein
- beta-adrenoceptor
- receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasodilation and increased heart beat)
- Purkinje's system
- a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract
- arteriole
- one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries
- venae pudendum
- vein of the pudendum
- left hand
- the hand that is on the left side of the body
- lumbus
- either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds
- erectile tissue
- vascular tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid
- Brodmann's area
- one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture
- gristle
- tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
- venae centrales hepatis
- terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids
- toe
- one of the digits of the foot
- falciform ligament
- a ligament that attaches part of the liver to the diaphragm and the abdominal wall
- fovea
- area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute
- ciliary artery
- one of several arteries supplying the choroid coat of the eye
- arteria colica
- arteries that supply blood to the colon
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