#2-Strange names for body parts
Have you ever stubbed your hallux? And do you know where your axilla is? And if you stuck your nares under water, what would happen?
Amaze your friends with weird body knowledge! It’s called anatomy.
On this page, I have written down the strange (and true!) names for lots of parts of the body.
- iris—colored part of the eye.
- pinna—visible part of the ear.
- canthus—corners on either side of the eye, right where the upper and lower lids come together.
- glabella—flat area just above the nose, in between the eyebrows.
- naris—nostril (plural = nares).
- frenum—skinny band of tissue that connects the floor of the mouth to the underside of the tongue.
- gnathion—lowest point of the chin.
- pate—top of the head, crown.
- clavicle—collar bone
- axilla—armpit
- thorax—the part of the chest where the ribs are
- condyle—knuckle
- navel—bellybutton
- coccyx—tailbone (in the back)
- patella—kneecap
- hallux—big toe
You can comment on these weird names—and add your own—but please remember my parents, grandparents, and Aunt Brenda read all the comments, so don’t be rude or nasty.
I like your abdomen muscles
Your Shnoz ( nose)
Ha! Good one.
Zygomatic arch is a weird name for a body part.
It REALLY is.
spline. A artery near hip.
you forgot golgi apparatus
You are right. That is a weird name. (It’s in the brain.)
The golgi apparatus is actually inside every cell. It packages the ribosomes after they are made from rRNA.
Granpa says he used to do tricks on the golgi apparatus he had in his backyard when he was a kid. (Heehee)
the back of your elbow where all the extra skin is called a wenis
True, but that’s a slang term…not a real medical or physiological term. My dad told me the word “physiological” (fizzy-o-LAH-ji-kul). It means “about the body.”
Biceps, triceps, quadriceps (I think they’re just running out names for -ceps.)
I wonder if there are quinticeps anywhere on any animal.
wonder if they have octoceps:)
Yay
gludius maximus = butt musle
Abominable muscle
I think you mean abDominal muscle. (But yours is funnier!)
Thanks Cheesie
🙂
Metatarsals, metacarpals, patella, humerus, femur, ulna, radius, and gluetaus maximus.
You are very humerus!
Tibia and phibia-
leg bones
Tibia is right, but the other bone is a fibula. I know because my father broke his fibula skiing when he was a teenager.
Broke his bone skiing.
I didn’t know half of this words until I read your book.
Epiglotis is another one. It’s a little flap of cartilage in your throat that keeps food from going into your lungs, or air from going into your stomach.
Cool word. Thanks.
P.S. uvula-the thing that hangs in the back of your throat sternum-chest vertebra-backbone
Good ones.
i love the word uvula it just sounds fun to say
If you yodel when you say it with your mouth open wide, your uvula wobbles!
phalanges-fingers or toes
Cool word.
I was most surprised when cheesie and Kevin became BFF s I was like whatttttttttt?
Yeah. Weird, huh?
pancrease (or however you spell it)
pancreas
Pancreas.
My friend Yasmin has diabetes, which means the pancreas can’t make enough Insulin to control her blood sugar.
PS She left our school! DANG IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
phalanges– fingers
Good one! You deserve a high five phalanges for it!
WENUS[WEENUS]is the patch of skin on your elbow!
That’s actually a slang word, not a real term for a body part.
Wenus also means penus
I looked it up penus means your shoulder bone
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Okay… I did not need to know that.
No it’s not a slang word it’s really the skin on your elbow
It actually is a slang word. It’s not a medical term for a body part. I looked it up here:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_weenus