Nouns denoting body parts
- Meibomian gland
- a long sebaceous gland that lubricates the eyelids
- cloaca
- (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
- histiocyte
- a macrophage that is found in connective tissue
- parietal bone
- either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium
- odontoid process
- a toothlike process at the back of 2nd vertebra of the neck
- crimp
- a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
- arteria maxillaris
- either of two arteries branching from the external carotid artery and supplying structure of the face
- lysosome
- an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)
- bulb
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
- nasal cavity
- either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx
- vegetation
- an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
- tiptoe
- the tip of a toe
- musculus sartorius
- a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body
- venter
- a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)
- apophysis
- (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra
- feature
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
- adult body
- the body of an adult human being
- blood plasma
- the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
- paleencephalon
- the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex
- middle finger
- the second finger; between the index finger and the ring finger
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