Nouns denoting body parts
- female genitalia
- external female sex organs
- gyrus
- a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
- musculus trapezius
- either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms
- motor end plate
- the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle
- motor nerve
- a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands
- islands of Langerhans
- cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ; secrete insulin and other hormones
- dendrite
- short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron
- frontal sinus
- one of a pair of cavities in the frontal bone
- arteria angularis
- the terminal branch of the facial artery
- cerebrum
- anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans
- anterior fontanelle
- corresponds to the bregma when bones have ossified
- laryngopharynx
- the lower part of the pharynx
- vena poplitea
- a vein arising in the knee and ascending to become the femoral vein
- epicranium
- the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium
- myocardium
- the middle muscular layer of the heart wall
- gastroepiploic vein
- one of two veins serving the great curvature of the stomach
- Purkinje cell
- a large densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex
- milk
- produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
- spinal cord
- a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region
- matrix
- the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded
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