The Human Body

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What bone is not connected to any other bone?

Hyoid bone

What is the longest segment of our small intestine?

Ileum

What is the most common eye color world wide?

Brown

What is the most common eye color worldwide?

Brown

HIV infect what kind of cell?

CD4 helper T cells

What part of the brain controls fine motor movement?

Cerebellum

What part of the brain controls fine motor movements?

Cerebellum

What is the name of our stress hormone?

Cortisol

What is the second layer of the skin called?

Dermis

What do you have if you have hepatomegaly?

Englarged liver

What do you have if you have hepatomegaly?

Enlarged liver

What is the name of the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach?

Esophagus

Facial, lingual, occipital and maxially are branches of what artery?

External carotid artery

Facial, lingual, occipital, and maxially are branches of what artery?

External carotid artery

What are you born with if you have polydactyly?

Extra fingers and/or extra toes

What is the biggest bone we have?

Femur

Which carbohydrate is found in sperm cells?

Fructose

What should not you eat if you have celiac disease?

Gluten

What shouldn't you eat if you have celiac disease?

Gluten

Where in the body can we find the calcaneus?

Heel

Where in the body can we find cones and rods?

In the retina of the eye

What hormone lowers blood sugar?

Insulin

What is the condition called where you have a yellowing of the skin and the eye?

Jaundice

What is called where two bones meet?

Joint

What is the name of the main veins in our neck?

Jugular veins

Nails are primarily made of what?

Keratin

If you have nephrotic syndrome, what organ is affected?

Kidneys

What is the six-pack muscle called?

Rectus abdominis

What is the most abundant cell type we have?

Red Blood Cells

What percentage of the body is water?

Roughly 60%

The thumb joint is what kind of joint?

Saddle Joint

What is our largest nerve?

Sciatic nerve

What is it called when you have a sideways curvature of the spine?

Scoliosis

Dermatitis is an inflammation of what body part?

Skin

What is the biggest external organ we have?

Skin

What is the smallest bone do we have?

Stapes

Where do red blood cells originated from?

Stem cells in the red bone marrow

What connects muscle to bones?

Tendons

What kind of tumor can grow teeth, hair and organs?

Teratomas

What is the name of the male hormone?

Testosterone

What disease is commonly known as lock jaw?

Tetanus

What is the name of the tube that carries air to the lungs?

Trachea

What is the most common blood type?

Type O positive

What structure gives nutrients to the baby in the womb?

Umbilical cord

How fast can a sneeze travel?

Up to 160km/h (100mph)

What makes urine yellow?

Urobilin

What sense is controlled by the optic nerve?

Vision

What are the five primary senses?

Vision, smell, taste, hearing, and touch

Where in the body you can get the Barton's fracture?

Wrist

What is the most abundant protein in blood plasma?

albumin

What is the name of the sharp teeth we have?

canines

What is the biggest muscle in the human body?

gluteus maximus

What is the six-pack muscle called?

rectus abdominis

Doudenum, jejunum, ileum are parts of what organ?

small intestine

What is idiopathic mean?

spontaneous of unknown cause

What are the five primary senses?

vision, smell, taste, hearing and touch

How many pairs of true ribs do we have?

7

What percentage of the brain is water?

70 percent

What is the oxygen saturation of venous blood?

75%

How many bones do we have in our wrist?

8

What is considered the rarest blood type world wide?

AB-

What is the formation of new blood vessels called?

Angiogenesis

What is our largest artery called?

Aorta

It is the process of programmed cell death?

Apoptosis

What muscle causes goosebumps?

Arrector pilli

The hip joint is what kind of joint?

Ball and socket joint

Insulin is produced by what kind of cell?

Beta Cells

What is the love hormone called?

Oxytocin

What is our largest salivary gland?

Parotid gland

What primary muscle of the chest called?

Pectoralis major

What kind of muscle movements move food down the esophagus?

Peristalsis

What is the master gland of the endocrine system?

Pituitary gland

What is the name of the area on the back of the knee?

Popliteal area

How much blood the average body contain?

5 Liters

How fast can a sneeze travel?

100 miles per hour

How many pairs of ribs do we have?

12 pairs

How many bones are in the human body?

206 bones ( over 300 at birth that fuse together)

How many bones is the skull comprised of?

22 bones

How many joints do we have?

360

The heart has how many chambers?

4 chambers

If you have hepatitis which organ is affected?

Liver

Waht is our largest internal organ?

Liver

What is our largest internal organ?

Liver

What organ breaks dowwn alcohol?

Liver

Where in the body can we find alveoli?

Lungs

Where in the body can we find the olive?

Medulla Oblongata

What is the name of the hormone that controls sleep?

Melatonin

Where in the body can you find the sternocleidomastoid?

Neck

What is the Latin name for elbow?

Olecranon


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