Body Parts
- uvula
- a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate
- bladder sphincter
- the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder; made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening
- bronchial artery
- arteries that accompany the bronchioles
- laryngeal artery
- either of two arteries that supply blood to the larynx
- vena canaliculi cochleae
- vein of the cochlear canal
- salivary gland
- any of three pairs of glands in the mouth and digestive system that secrete saliva for digestion
- colic artery
- arteries that supply blood to the colon
- right coronary artery
- arises from the right aortic sinus; supplies the right side of the heart
- antagonistic muscle
- (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another
- frontal cortex
- that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead
- funiculus
- any of several body structure resembling a cord
- areola
- small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
- nervus spinalis
- any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal)
- eye
- the organ of sight
- spur
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- book lung
- organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book
- palatine
- either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
- lesser peritoneal cavity
- an isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomach
- soft palate
- a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking
- musculus buccinator
- a muscle that flattens the cheek and retracts the angle of the mouth
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