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 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 body that is connected to another bone is more commonly known by it’s biblically derived nickname than it’s technical name?
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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?
If you keep licking off your lipstick, this nerve that controls the motion of the tongue is
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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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