Body Parts - Beginners and intermediates

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Flashcards with body parts and associated vocabularies such as functions and intern structure.
Henrique Costa Barros
Flashcards by Henrique Costa Barros, updated more than 1 year ago
Henrique Costa Barros
Created by Henrique Costa Barros about 5 years ago
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BACK Approximately 8 out of 10 Americans will suffer from back PAIN during their lives.
ARMPIT Armpit hair GROWS faster during the day than at night.
BRASTS Breast size is HEREDITARY.
BRAIN Of the total BLOOD and OXYGEN that is produced in our BODY, the brain gets 20% of it.
ARM The BONE in your upper arm is called the funny bone or the HUMERUS.
CHEEK Cheeks can also be called the BUCCAL CAVITY.
CHIN HUMANS are the only animal with chins.
CHEST The RIBS are FLAT, THIN bones that curve around your chest.
CALF The MUSCLES within the calf correspond to the POSTERIOR compartment of the leg
EAR Your ears never stop hearing even while you're ASLEEP
ELBOW 23 muscles give the elbow STABILITY and FLEXIBILITY
EYELASHES The longest eyelash on record was 2.75 INCHES long.
EYES The average BLINK lasts for about 1/10th of a second.
FEET (plural form) Foot bones MAKE UP about A QUARTER of all the bones in our bodies.
EYEBROWS The AVERAGE PERSON has about 250 hairs PER eyebrow.
HAIR Hair is made mostly of a PROTEIN called KERATIN.
HANDS Hands have 2 main sets of muscles and TENDONS.
FOREARM The forearm CONTAINS two long bones, the RADIUS and the ULNA.
FOREHEAD A person will often touch someone's forehead to check whether or not they have a FEVER.
HEAD The human head typically WEIGHS between 5 and 11 pounds (2.3 and 5.0 kg)
HEART A heart BEATS about 115,000 times each day.
KIDNEY Kidneys filter the body's blood and help GET RID of WASTE products.
INTESTINES In a lifetime, the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM will handle over 50 tons of food and liquid.
HEEL The heel is the PROMINENCE at the POSTERIOR end of the foot
JAW The MANDIBLE, lower jaw or JAWBONE is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face
KNEE Babies are born without KNEECAPS.
LUNGS In order to ACCOMMODATE the heart, the right lung is larger than the left lung
LOW BACK Low back pain is the most common cause of missed work days.
LIPS Lips are 100 times more sensitive than FINGER TIPS.
LIVER It is the only organ that can completely REGENERATE.
NAVEL Medically or scientifically, the navel or the BELLY BUTTON is nothing but a SCAR on our body.
NOSTRILS A nostril is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they BIFURCATE to the EXTERNAL opening.
NECK According to the World Records, the maximum known extension of a human neck is 40 cm.
NOSE TheTECHNICAL term for sense of smell is 'OLFACTION'.
MOUTH Without SALIVA, we would not be able to TASTE anything.
SKELETON The adult human body has 206 bones.
SKULL The teeth are not a part of the skull bones.
PANCREAS DIABETES is the result of damage to pancreatic CELLS.
SHOULDER The human shoulder is made up of three bones: the CLAVICLE , the SCAPULA, and the HUMERUS
SHIN Shin splints is defined as "pain along the INNER EDGE of the shinbone. (TIBIA).
STOMCH The stomach is attached to the mouth by a long tube called the ESOPHAGUS.
TOOTH (TEETH) The average American spends 38.5 total days brushing their teeth over a lifetime.
THIGH The FEMUR is the longest bone in the body.
THROAT The throat is the front part of the neck, POSITIONED in front of the VERTEBRA.
ANKLE The ankle, or the TELOCRURAL region, is the region where the foot and the leg meet.
WAIST The waist is the part of the ABDOMEN between the RIB CAGE and HIPS.
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM The internal organs are the UTERUS, FALLOPIAN TUBES, and OVARIES.
TONGUE The tongue is a MUSCULAR organ in the mouth of most VERTEBRATES that MANIPULATES food for MASTICATION.
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