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Aconal

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Relating to the elbow

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Acronyx

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Ingrown nail

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Albuginea

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The white of the eye

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Aspectabund

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Of a pleasantly changing countenance

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5
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Axilla

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The armpit

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Blype

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A piece of sken that peels off after a sunburn

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Buccula

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Double chin

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Canthus

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The point at either end of each eye where the upper and lower lids meet

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Carminative

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Relarting to farting; that which induces gas

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Cerumen

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Earwax

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Chaetophorous

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Bristle-bearing; in need of a shave

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Cilia

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Eyelash

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Circadian

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Having to do with bodily cycles,like those interrupted by jet travel

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14
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Columella

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The fleshy part of the nose, just above the lip, that separates the nostrils

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Dolichopodous

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Having long feet

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16
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Dorsum

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The back part of the tongue

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17
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Embrasure

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The space between your teeth

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18
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Exungulation

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Paring the nails

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19
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Frenulum

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The thin muscle under the tongue

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20
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Furfuration

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The falling of dandruff from the scalp

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21
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Gelasin

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a dimple on the cheek, when you smile

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Geromorphism

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Looking elder than one’s real age

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Gnathion

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The tip of the chin

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Gonion

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Either end of the lower part of the jaw

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Hallux

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Big toe

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Hirci

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Armpit hair

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Hircinous

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With goat-like odour

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Horripilation

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Goose bumps

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Lentiginous

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Heavily freckled

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Lunula

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The white crescent-shaped part of the fingernail at the base of the nail

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Macrotous

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Large-eared

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Melanotrichous

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Having black hair

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Noop

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Sharp point of the elbow

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Olecranon

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The funny bone

35
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Opisthenar

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The back of the hand

36
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Oscitancy

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The act of yawning

37
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Ozostomia

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Evil-smelling breath

38
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Pandiculation

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A stretching and yawning, just before sleeping

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Papuliferous

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Pimply

40
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Patrician

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The very long, very full, almost rectangular beard

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Paxwax

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Neck tendon, nuchal ligament

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Philosity

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The degree of body hair

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Philtrum

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The indentation in the middle of the upper lip just below the nose

44
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Plook

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Scottish word for a nasty boil or pimple

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Podobromhidrosis

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Smelly feet

46
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Popliteal

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Pertaining to the hollow area at the back of the knee

47
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Pronasale

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The tip of the nail

48
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Psedosmia

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False smell-perception

49
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Purlicue

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The space between the index finger and the extended thumb

50
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Pygia

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A pain in the rump

51
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Racklettes

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The little lines on the wrist

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Sciapodous

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Having very large feet

53
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Sexdigitism

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Having six fingers or toes

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Simity

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The state of being pug-nosed

55
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Snoach

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The breath through the nose

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Steatopygic

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Having excessively fat buttocks bottom heavy

57
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Sternutation

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Sneezing

58
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Tragus

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The fleshy bump on your ear between the face and the ear cavity

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Ulotrichous

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Having woolly hair

60
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Uvula

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The thing that hangs down from the back of the mouth

61
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Vellus

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Short, downy hair found on the face

62
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Vomer

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The slender bone separating the nostrils

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