Flashcards
Body Parts - Beginners and intermediates
Flashcards do conjunto (48)
- 1—BACK
Approximately 8 out of 10 Americans will suffer from back PAIN during their lives.
- 2—ARMPIT
Armpit hair GROWS faster during the day than at night.
- 3—BRASTS
Breast size is HEREDITARY.
- 4—BRAIN
Of the total BLOOD and OXYGEN that is produced in our BODY, the brain gets 20% of it.
- 5—ARM
The BONE in your upper arm is called the funny bone or the HUMERUS. - 6—CHEEK
Cheeks can also be called the BUCCAL CAVITY.
- 7—CHIN
HUMANS are the only animal with chins.
- 8—CHEST
The RIBS are FLAT, THIN bones that curve around your chest.
- 9—CALF
The MUSCLES within the calf correspond to the POSTERIOR compartment of the leg
- 10—EAR
Your ears never stop hearing even while you're ASLEEP
- 11—ELBOW
23 muscles give the elbow STABILITY and FLEXIBILITY
- 12—EYELASHES
The longest eyelash on record was 2.75 INCHES long.
- 13—EYES
The average BLINK lasts for about 1/10th of a second.
- 14—FEET (plural form)
Foot bones MAKE UP about A QUARTER of all the bones in our bodies.
- 15—EYEBROWS
The AVERAGE PERSON has about 250 hairs PER eyebrow.
- 16—HAIR
Hair is made mostly of a PROTEIN called KERATIN.
- 17—HANDS
Hands have 2 main sets of muscles and TENDONS.
- 18—FOREARM
The forearm CONTAINS two long bones, the RADIUS and the ULNA.
- 19—FOREHEAD
A person will often touch someone's forehead to check whether or not they have a FEVER.
- 20—HEAD
The human head typically WEIGHS between 5 and 11 pounds (2.3 and 5.0 kg)
- 21—HEART
A heart BEATS about 115,000 times each day.
- 22—KIDNEY
Kidneys filter the body's blood and help GET RID of WASTE products.
- 23—INTESTINES
In a lifetime, the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM will handle over 50 tons of food and liquid.
- 24—HEEL
The heel is the PROMINENCE at the POSTERIOR end of the foot
- 25—JAW
The MANDIBLE, lower jaw or JAWBONE is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face
- 26—KNEE
Babies are born without KNEECAPS.
- 27—LUNGS
In order to ACCOMMODATE the heart, the right lung is larger than the left lung
- 28—LOW BACK
Low back pain is the most common cause of missed work days.
- 29—LIPS
Lips are 100 times more sensitive than FINGER TIPS.
- 30—LIVER
It is the only organ that can completely REGENERATE.
- 31—NAVEL
Medically or scientifically, the navel or the BELLY BUTTON is nothing but a SCAR on our body.
- 32—NOSTRILS
A nostril is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they BIFURCATE to the EXTERNAL opening.
- 33—NECK
According to the World Records, the maximum known extension of a human neck is 40 cm.
- 34—NOSE
TheTECHNICAL term for sense of smell is 'OLFACTION'.
- 35—MOUTH
Without SALIVA, we would not be able to TASTE anything.
- 36—SKELETON
The adult human body has 206 bones.
- 37—SKULL
The teeth are not a part of the skull bones.
- 38—PANCREAS
DIABETES is the result of damage to pancreatic CELLS.
- 39—SHOULDER
The human shoulder is made up of three bones: the CLAVICLE , the SCAPULA, and the HUMERUS
- 40—SHIN
Shin splints is defined as "pain along the INNER EDGE of the shinbone. (TIBIA).
- 41—STOMCH
The stomach is attached to the mouth by a long tube called the ESOPHAGUS.
- 42—TOOTH (TEETH)
The average American spends 38.5 total days brushing their teeth over a lifetime.
- 43—THIGH
The FEMUR is the longest bone in the body.
- 44—THROAT
The throat is the front part of the neck, POSITIONED in front of the VERTEBRA.
- 45—ANKLE
The ankle, or the TELOCRURAL region, is the region where the foot and the leg meet.
- 46—WAIST
The waist is the part of the ABDOMEN between the RIB CAGE and HIPS.
- 47—FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
The internal organs are the UTERUS, FALLOPIAN TUBES, and OVARIES.
- 48—TONGUE
The tongue is a MUSCULAR organ in the mouth of most VERTEBRATES that MANIPULATES food for MASTICATION.
Informações
- Descrição
- Flashcards with body parts and associated vocabularies such as functions and intern structure.
- Criado por
- Henrique Costa Barros
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