Nouns denoting body parts
- bridge
- the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
- anus
- the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal
- lappet
- a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
- Purkinje fiber
- a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network
- pectoralis major
- a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm
- vena bulbi penis
- vein of the head of the penis; tributary of the internal pudendal vein that drains the perineum
- femoris
- the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
- temporal vein
- any of several veins draining the temporal region
- milium
- a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
- fornix
- an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
- myometrium
- the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus
- sphenion
- the anterior tip of the parietal bone
- scrotal vein
- veins passing from the scrotum to the pudendal veins
- ramus
- the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical
- vena sigmoideus
- tributaries of the inferior mesenteric vein; drains the sigmoid colon
- arteria ascendens
- the branch of the ileocolic artery that supplies the ascending colon
- alimentary tract smear
- any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the alimentary tract; obtained by specialized lavage techniques and used mainly to diagnose cancer in those parts
- costal groove
- groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are
- Brodmann's area
- one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture
- rib cage
- the bony enclosing wall of the chest
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