Nouns denoting body parts
- integument
- an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
- trigeminal nerve
- the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
- os
- a mouth or mouthlike opening
- interstice
- a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ
- posterior cerebral artery
- arises from the basilar artery; divides into three branches
- vena cystica
- vein that drains the gallbladder
- mesocolon
- mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall
- seminal duct
- the efferent duct of the testis in man
- Luschka's tonsil
- a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx)
- group O
- the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens
- fovea
- area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute
- chest cavity
- the cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart
- Meibomian gland
- a long sebaceous gland that lubricates the eyelids
- zonule
- small beltlike zone
- lamina
- a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
- bunghole
- vulgar slang for anus
- anterior cerebral artery
- one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into two branches that serve (1) the thalamus and (2) parts of the frontal and parietal cortex
- posterior
- a tooth situated at the back of the mouth
- forebrain
- the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube
- neural arch
- a structure arising dorsally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the spinal cord
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