All About Bones | Nice Biceps (And Other Muscles) | Got Nerve | Get Me Bodied | It’s Circulating! |
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What is 206?
No bones about it! Your skeleton is made up of this number of bones?
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What is the belly?
Santa’s gut and the midsection of a muscle share this common name.
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What is the brain?
The scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz longed for this cranial organ that controls all three subsystems of the nervous system.
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What is the excretory system?
The layers of the skin make up the integumentary system. The skin is also an important part of this other body system.
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What is an elephant?
Heart attack victims often describe the chest pressure they experience as like having this large mammal sitting on your chest.
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What is irregular?
Your ankle bones, wrist bones and spinal column column are all this type of bone.
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What is the frontalis?
This scalp muscle allows us to raise our eyebrows and is the site of many a Botox injection.
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What is the medulla oblongata?
Situated just below the pons, this area of the brain connects to the spinal chord.
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What is melasma?
Hormonal imbalances during pregnancy can cause this form of hyperpigmentation on the face?
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What is lymph?
This colorless liquid byproduct travels to areas that blood can’t, flowing through purifying nodes and glands.
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What are zygomatic bones?
If you wanted to be anatomically correct, you might say that a supermodel has great (blank) bones.
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What is blinking?
The muscles that control this motion function as both striated and non-striated.
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What are synapses?
Located at the ends of each axon on a nerve cell are these terminals for electrical messages sent between the brain and the rest of the body.
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What is the kidneys?
This bean-shaped organ secretes bile and neutralizes ammonia from the circulatory system.
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What are erythrocytes?
Also known as red blood cells, these cells contain hemoglobin, a protein that attracts oxygen.
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What are phalanges?
You may have 10 fingers but you have 14 of this type of bone.
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What are abductors?
Just like a kidnapper might separate a puppy from its rightful owner, these muscles separate your fingers from each other.
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What is accelerate?
The sympathetic nervous system constricts blood vessels and causes the heart rate and blood pressure to do this.
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What are conchae?
When inhale air through the nose, these little guys warm it up.
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What is the external maxillary artery?
This facial artery consists of four branches and supplies blood to the lower half of the face.
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What is the hyoid?
The only bone in the human body that is not
connected to another bone, is more commonly known by it’s biblically derived nickname than it’s technical name. |
What is the quadratus labii inferioris?
This three word muscle just below the lower lip bestows us with the gift of expressing sarcasm.
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What is the hypoglossal nerve?
When you keep licking off your lipstick, this nerve controls the motion of the tongue.
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What is pepsin?
This enzyme found in the stomach breaks proteins down into free amino acids that are important to the hair, skin and nails?
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What is the bicuspid valve?
During the process of general circulation, this pump moves blood from the left atrium chamber of the heart down into the left ventricle?
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