Body Parts
- vegetation
- an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
- facia
- a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc
- geniculate body
- one of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex
- aortic valve
- a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta; prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart
- sinus
- a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel
- abdominal cavity
- the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm
- heart
- the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
- foreskin
- a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris
- bird's foot
- the foot of a bird
- carina fornicis
- ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain
- carotid body
- a chemoreceptor located near the bifurcations of the carotid arteries; monitors oxygen content of the blood and helps control respiration
- plastron
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- outer ear
- the part of the ear visible externally
- erectile organ
- an organ containing erectile tissue
- vasa efferentia
- the several highly convoluted tubules that lead from the rete testis to the vas deferens and form the head of the epididymis
- haunch
- the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings
- cervical nerve
- any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord
- splint bone
- a rudimentary metacarpal or metatarsal bone on either side of the cannon bone in the leg of a horse or related animal
- arteria labialis superior
- an artery that is a branch of the facial artery that supplies the upper lip
- middle cerebral vein
- either of two cerebral veins
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