Anatomy

Question 1

This region of the brain is responsible for decision-making, emotional reactions and processing memory. It consists of two groups of nuclei.

Answer 1

Amygdala

Question 2

The pia mater, the arachnoid mater, and the dura mater are the three membranes that envelop the mammalian brain and spinal cord. They are known collectively by what term?

Answer 2

Meninges

Question 3

In mammals, the small intestine is made up of three parts. One is the duodenum; what is the name for either of the other two?

Answer 3

Jejunum, Ileum

Question 4

The plantar fascia is a fibrous band that helps to maintain the structure and shape of which part of the human body?

Answer 4

Foot

Question 5

What collective name is given to the seven rounded bones in the foot, including the cuboid, talus and calcaneus?

Answer 5

Tarsals

Question 6

From a Greek term also applied to a body of close-order infantry, what name denotes the fourteen bones found in the toes?

Answer 6

Phalanges

Question 7

Which bone links the scapula with the sternum?

Answer 7

Clavicle (Collarbone)

Question 8

Epinephrine, norepinephrine, aldosterone, and cortisol, as well as certain male sex hormones (androgens), are all hormones produced in the human body by what glands?

Answer 8

Adrenal glands

Question 9

This is the name of the small depression between your nose and upper lip.

Answer 9

Philtrum

Question 10

Whereas placental mammals have separate digestive and urogenital openings, the majority of vertebrates—including most reptiles, amphibians, and birds—have a single posterior chamber into which the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts all enter. What is the term for this orifice?

Answer 10

Cloaca

Question 11

You’ll find your philtrum just below this organ.

Answer 11

Nose

Question 12

The name of what gland was obscured three times on this textbook diagram?

Answer 12

Pituitary

Question 13

Veins in the human body carry deoxygenated blood, with two exceptions. One exception is the umbilical vein, which is present during prenatal development and transports oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. What is the other exception—the only vein (actually four in number under normal conditions) that carries oxygenated blood and is present in all humans?

Answer 13

Pulmonary

Question 14

In what part of the body would you find the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament?

Answer 14

Knee

Question 15

This arm bone was named for its supposed resemblance to the spoke of a wheel.

Answer 15

Radius

Question 16

What’s the more common name for the pair of body parts also called nares?

Answer 16

Nostrils

Question 17

What is the physiological term for the wavelike muscular contractions that pass along tubular organs, such as what propels food through the esophagus into the stomach?

Answer 17

Peristalsis

Question 18

What part of your body is a trichologist most likely to help you with?

Answer 18

Hair

Question 19

The medical term “syndactyly” refers to a condition where a person is born with which body parts fused together?

Answer 19

Fingers or toes

Question 20

Adventitious, subcutaneous, synovial, and sub-muscular are the four types of what fluid sacs around your joints, which can become painfully inflamed when irritated or infected?

Answer 20

If you’ve ever had bursitis, it might be because someone punched the bursa.

Question 21

It’s the 9-letter medical name for the heel bone, the largest bone in the foot.

Answer 21

Calcaneus

Question 22

The liquid part of blood (i.e., blood minus the blood cells) is plasma. What is the term for blood plasma from which fibrinogens and clotting factors have been removed?

Answer 22

Serum

Question 23

What word, used colloquially to refer to a person’s nose, is the scientific term for the trunk of an elephant as well as for the elongated feeding and sucking organ of some invertebrates?

Answer 23

Proboscis

Question 24

Bile aids digestion by breaking up large molecules of fat; it’s stored in the gallbladder but made by this organ.

Answer 24

Liver

Question 25

What word, defined in math as “neither vertical nor horizontal”, gives its name to a pair of muscles in the human abdomen?

Answer 25

Obliques

Question 26

What muscle in the human body is actually a muscle group, consisting of the rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, and vastus intermedius?

Answer 26

Quadriceps (Femoris)

Question 27

Specialized cardiac muscle fibers in mammalian hearts that conduct impulses from the atria to the ventricles are an atrioventricular “Bundle” named what? It is present in females as well as males (as it’s named after the Swiss cardiologist who discovered it).

Answer 27

Bundle of His

Question 28

Intermittent pain named medically after English physician John Braxton Hicks is often described as “false” pain that may evoke, but does not indicate, what biological process?

Answer 28

Contractions / Labor / Childbirth

Question 29

This pea-sized “master gland” produces hormones that regulate many of the body’s other endocrine glands

Answer 29

Pituitary

Question 30

In the human body the ribs attach to the 12 thoracic ones of these.

Answer 30

Vertebra

Question 31

A goiter is an enlargement of this endocrine gland that produces the hormones T3 & T4.

Answer 31

Thyroid

Question 32

The gastrocnemius and soleus muscles are located in the part of the human body whose name is also the name of an entirely different type of animal (which, incidentally, doesn’t really have this particular body part). What is this body part?

Answer 32

Calf

Question 33

What distinctive, gland-filled part of human anatomy has a name that translates from Latin as “little grape” (which, it could be argued, it resembles)?

Answer 33

Uvula