Body Parts
- pricker
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- aortic orifice
- the orifice from the lower left chamber of the heart to the aorta
- abdominal aorta
- a branch of the descending aorta
- valvula
- a small valve
- metacarpal bone
- any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers
- femoral biceps
- the biceps muscle of the thigh; it flexes the knee and rotates the leg laterally
- fibrocartilage
- cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
- arachnoid
- the middle of the 3 meninges
- plexus celiacus
- a large plexus of sympathetic nerves in the abdomen behind the stomach
- gyrus cinguli
- a long curved structure on the medial surface of the cerebral hemispheres; the cortical part of the limbic system
- vena cerebrum internus
- two paired veins passing caudally near the midline and uniting to form the great cerebral vein
- hair
- a filamentous projection or process on an organism
- glans clitoridis
- small mass of erectile tissue at the end of the body of the clitoris
- quick
- any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
- vena cava
- either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart
- buccal artery
- a branch of the maxillary artery that supplies blood to the buccinator muscle and the cheek
- pancreatic artery
- a branch of the splenic artery that supplies the pancreas
- organ of Corti
- the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves
- common carotid artery
- runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries
- rhinion
- the anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones
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