In anatomy, the head of an animal is the anterior part (from anatomical position) that comprises the mouth, the brain and various sensory organs (e.g. organs of sight, hearing, smell and taste). Head - Anatomy. The front (ventrum) of the head, where the eyes and ears and mouth are located, is called the face. The area above the eyes is called the forehead (the front of the head). Below the mouth is the chin. Younger aged humans and some older humans heads have a continuing growing layer ...

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• Head - Anatomy
• Head - Human head anatomy
• Head - The face
• Head - Cultural import
• Head - Clothing
• Head - Pseudoscientific study of the human head

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People who are more intelligent than normal are sometimes depicted in cartoons as having bigger heads, as a way of indicating that they have more brains; in science fiction, an alien having a big head is often symbolic of high intelligence. However, minor changes in brain size do not have much affect on intelligence in humans. For humans, the head and particularly the face are the main distinguishing feature between different people, due to their easily discernible features such as hair and eye color, nose, eye and mouth shapes, wrinkles, etc. In English slang, sometimes a boastful ...

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The neck is the part of the body on many limbed vertebrates that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk. Neck - Anatomy of the human neck. Neck - Bony anatomy: The cervical spine. The cervical portion of the human spine comprises seven bony segments, typically referred to as C-1 to C-7, with cartilaginous disks between each vertebral body. From top to bottom the cervical spine is gently curved in convex-forward fashion. Neck - Soft tissue anatomyIncluding:

• Neck - Anatomy of the human neck
• Neck - Bony anatomy: The cervical spine
• Neck - Soft tissue anatomy

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The face is the front part of the human head from forehead to chin including the head, hair, forehead, eyebrow, eyes, nose, cheek, mouth, lips, teeth, skin, and chin. The face is used for facial expressions, appearance and identity amongst other humans. Face - Anatomy. On the front of the facepiece a line drawn down from the supraorbital notch between the bicuspid teeth to the side of the chin will cut the exit of the second division of the fifth nerve from the infraorbital foramen, a quarter of an inch bel ...

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• Face - Anatomy
• Face - Eye
• Face - Jaw
• Face - Face surgery
• Face - Health
• Face - Face diseases

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The anatomical position is a schematic convention for describing the relative morphology of the human body. All terms in the study of anatomy refer to when the body is in this position. The person is oriented in an erect standing position eyes and head facing forward feet forward and perpendicular to the body arms close to the sides and palms of the hands facing forward with fingers extended. It should be noted that this is not the normal position that arms rest in.

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The pancreas is an organ that serves two functions: exocrine - it produces pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes. endocrine - it produces several important hormones, including insulin. Pancreas - Anatomy. The pancreas is an organ located posterior to the stomach and in close association with the duodenum. In humans the pancreas is a small elongated organ in the abdomen. It is described as having a head, body and tail. The pancreatic head abuts the second part of t ...

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• Pancreas - Anatomy
• Pancreas - Function
• Pancreas - Exocrine
• Pancreas - Endocrine
• Pancreas - Edibility
• Pancreas - Diseases of the pancreas
• Pancreas - History

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In human anatomy, the forehead or brow is the bony vertical part of the head above the eyes. Muscles of the forehead include the frontalis, which moves and contracts the forehead's scalp. HEAD: Forehead – Eye – Ear – Nose – Mouth – Tongue – Teeth – Jaw – Face – Cheek – Chin NECK: Throat – Adam's apple TORSO: Shoulders – Spine – Chest – Breast – Ribcage – Abdomen– Belly button Sex organs (Penis/Scrotum or Clitoris/Vagina) – Rectum ...

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The cephalic index is the ratio of the maximum breadth of the head to its maximum length (i.e., in the horizontal plane, or front to back), sometimes multiplied by 100 for convenience. It was defined by Swedish professor of anatomy Anders Retzius (1796-1860) and first used in physical anthropology to classify ancient human remains found in Europe. It has been generally discredited since a study Franz Boas made at the turn of the 19th/20th century; however, Boas's study has recently been itself heavily criticised (v. Sparks & Jantz, 2002, at Proce ...

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In human anatomy, the biceps brachii is a muscle on the upper arm that acts to flex the elbow. Contrary to popular belief, the main flexor of the forearm is not the bicep, but the brachialis muscle, which is deep to the bicep. The bicep is arguably the best known muscle, as it lies fairly superficially, and is often well-defined even in non-athletes. It is given the name biceps because it has two heads, and brachii comes from the Latin word for arm. The muscle is popular amongst bodybuilders, and can grow quite large through weight lifting. The world ...

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In human anatomy, the carotid artery refers to a number of major arteries in the head and neck. Carotid artery can mean: Common carotid artery External carotid artery Internal carotid artery There are two carotid arteries, one on the left and one on the right. From their origins and for about half their length, the carotid arteries are known as common carotid arteries. The left carotid arises from the arch of the aorta, while the right carotid arises as one of the branc ...

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Neophocaena Phocoena - Harbor porpoises Phocoenoides - Dall's Porpoises The porpoises are small cetaceans of the family Phocoenidae; they are related to whales and dolphins. They are however distinct from dolphins, although the word "porpoise" is often used to refer to any small dolphin, especially in North America. A key difference is the shape of the teeth and of the head. Porpoises, divided into six species, live in all oceans, mostly near the shore. Probably best known is the H ...

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• Porpoise - Behaviour
• Porpoise - Taxonomy
• Porpoise - Evolution of porpoises
• Porpoise - Human impact

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In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for "in the head"), acts as the control center of the central nervous system. In most animals, the brain is located in the head close to the primary sensory apparatus and the mouth. While all vertebrate nervous systems have a brain, invertebrate nervous systems may have either a centralized brain or collections of individual ganglia. The brain is an extremely complex organ; for example, the human brain is a collection of 100 billion neurons, each linked with up to 25,000 others [1]. T ...

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• Brain - Mind and brain
• Brain - History
• Brain - Modern neuroscience
• Brain - Comparative anatomy
• Brain - Invertebrates
• Brain - Vertebrates
• Brain - Neurobiology
• Brain - Histology
• Brain - Function
• Brain - Brain pathology
• Brain - The study of the brain
• Brain - Fields of study
• Brain - Methods of observation
• Brain - Other matters
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Africanized bees, also known as killer bees, are hybrids of the African honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii (or by other reports A. m. scutellata), with various European honeybees such as the Italian bee Apis mellifera ligustica. They have come to be the preferred type of bee for beekeeping in tropical areas of South America and in Central America because of improved productivity. In most areas the Africanize hybrid is initially feared, because it tends to retain certain behavioral traits from its Afr ...

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• Africanized bee - Aggressiveness
• Africanized bee - Geographic spread
• Africanized bee - Geographic limits
• Africanized bee - Difficulty in determination
• Africanized bee - Effects of selective breeding
• Africanized bee - In the European Bee intentional selection
• Africanized bee - In the African Bee natural selection
• Africanized bee - The Assassin Bee?
• Africanized bee - The lore
• Africanized bee - The danger to apiculture
• Africanized bee - Genetic evidence
• Africanized bee - Behavioral evidence
• Africanized bee - Gentle Africanized bees
• Africanized bee - Queen management in Africanized bee areas
• Africanized bee - How to avoid bees
• Africanized bee - Use caution with power mowers
• Africanized bee - Walk with care in clover and near picnic sites
• Africanized bee - Avoid perfume cologne and scented cosmetics
• Africanized bee - Beware of head-butting bees
• Africanized bee - Wear light colors
• Africanized bee - Water meter chambers
• Africanized bee - Open air hives

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Anatomy (from the Greek ἀνατομία anatomia, from ἀνατέμνειν anatemnein, to cut up, cut open), is the branch of biology that deals with the structure and organization of living things. It can be divided into animal anatomy (zootomy) and plant anatomy (phytonomy). Major branches of anatomy include comparative anatomy, histology, and human anatomy. Anatomy - Animal anatomy. Including:

• Anatomy - Animal anatomy
• Anatomy - Human anatomy
• Anatomy - Major body systems
• Anatomy - Organs
• Anatomy - Bones in the human skeleton
• Anatomy - Glands
• Anatomy - Tissues
• Anatomy - Externally visible parts of the human body
• Anatomy - Other anatomic terms not classified

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In human and zoological anatomy (sometimes called zootomy), several terms are used to describe the location of organs and other structures in the body of bilateral animals. These terms are listed and explained here. In some cases, the terminology in human anatomy may differ from that in general anatomy. The anatomical position holds more relevant information on relations and terms of location for human anatomy. Anatomical terms of location - Directions. Anatomical terms of location - Ge ...

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• Anatomical terms of location - General usage
• Anatomical terms of location - Usage in human anatomy
• Anatomical terms of location - Relative directions
• Anatomical terms of location - Relative directions in the limbs
• Anatomical terms of location - Planes
• Anatomical terms of location - General usage
• Anatomical terms of location - Usage in human anatomy
• Anatomical terms of location - Relative motions

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In humans the thigh is the area between the pelvis and buttocks and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb. The single bone in the thigh is called the femur. This bone is very thick and strong (due to the high proportion of cortical bone), and forms a ball and socket joint at the hip, and a condylar joint at the knee. Thigh - Fascial compartments. In cross-section, the thigh is divided up into three fascial compartments. These compartments use the femur as an axis, and are separated by ...

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• Thigh - Fascial compartments
• Thigh - Anterior compartment
• Thigh - Medial compartment
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In human anatomy, the cephalic vein is a superficial vein of the upper limb. It communicates with the basilic vein via the median cubital vein at the elbow and is located in the superficial fascia along the anterolateral surface of the biceps brachii muscle. Superiorly the cephalic vein passes between the deltoid and pectoralis major muscles and through the deltopectoral triangle, where it empties into the ...

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In human anatomy, the thumb is the first digit on a hand. The human thumb is fully opposable to the tips of the other fingers in that it may position itself, and be folded inward, toward the rest of the hand and fingers, if so required. It rotates at the carpometacarpal joint and so can complete the sometimes quite delicate task of grasping objects by pressing them against the rest of the hand or finger(s). Thumb - Anatomy of the thumb. In anatomy, the thumb is also called the first finger, pollex ...

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• Thumb - Anatomy of the thumb
• Thumb - Grips
• Thumb - Origin of the thumb
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In human anatomy, the basilic vein is a superficial vein of the upper limb. It communicates with the cephalic vein via the median cubital vein at the elbow and drains into the axillary vein. It is a superficial vein that drains the back of the hand and forearm. It communicates with the cephalic vein via the median cubital vein at the elbow, then runs superficially medial to the biceps brachii muscle and perforates the deep fascia about midway up the arm where it runs medial to the brachial artery. It joins the brachial vein and becomes the axillary ...

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• Basilic vein - External link

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