History of Anatomy
Anatomical Terminology
Fun Anatomical Facts
Anatomical Phrases
Singing about Anatomy
100
This Ancient Greek Physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"
Who is Hippocrates?
100
This term describes the body part that is closer to the midline of the body compared to another structure.
What is medial?
100
This organ uses around 20% of the body's oxygen supply, even though it only makes up about 2% of body weight.
What is the brain?
100
When someone is often daydreaming, they are said to have this organ "in the clouds"
What is their head?
100
Bonnie Tyler had a dramatic 1983 hit with this song, where she sings, "There's nothing I can do, a total eclipse of" this organ.
What is the heart?
200
The first successful human heart transplant was completed in this decade of the 20th Century.
What is the '60s?
200
This anatomical plane divides the body into left and right halves.
What is the sagittal plane?
200
This protein, found in the skin, allows it to stretch and return to its original shape, keeping it flexible and youthful
What is elastin?
200
Someone who is kind and compassionate might be described as having this organ "of gold"
What is a heart?
200
Billie Eilish’s haunting song "Listen Before I Go" (2019) includes the lyric, "Take me to the rooftop, I wanna see the world when I stop breathing, turning" this organ "blue."
What are the lungs?
300
This was the first human dissection manual ever written.
What is Anathema corpora's human?
300
The wrist is farther away from the trunk than the elbow. This term describes its position.
What is distal?
300
These are the fastest reacting muscles in the human body. They react in less than 1/10th of a second.
What are the eye muscles?
300
If you instinctively know something without logical reasoning, people might say you're "going with" this digestive organ.
What is your gut?
300
The Weeknd (in 2015) sings about someone he loves, but also claims he "can’t feel" this part of his body "when I’m with you."
What is the face?
400
The images above are pen and ink sketches by which 15th Century Renaissance Artist?
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
400
A CT scan that produces either or top or bottom view of the body is taken along this plane.
What is the transverse plane?
400
Similar to a fingerprint, this part of the body has its only unique 'print' for every person.
What is the tongue?
400
If someone is providing strong support in a situation, they might be described as "being" this lower limb "to stand on"
What is a leg?
400
Ed Sheeran’s "Thinking Out Loud" (2014) starts with the lyric, "When your legs don’t work like they used to before, and I can’t sweep you off of" this organ.
What are the feet?
500
This Roman Physician, who treated gladiators, relied on animal dissections and influenced medical knowledge for centuries to come.
Who is Galen?
500
This plane divides the body into equal left and right halves
What is the midsagittal plane?"
500
This ball-and-socket joint is the most mobile joint in the human body, allowing movement in almost any direction.
What is the shoulder joint?
500
When you are struggling to remember something, you might say it's "on the tip of" this muscular organ.
What is your tongue.
500
Billy Ray Cyrus told us not to tell his "achy, breaky" this organ, because it "just wouldn't understand."
What is the heart?