Anatomy Vocabulary

a bitter yellow liquid produced by the liver, helps to digest fat: (Galle)

a small bag-like bodily organ connected to the liver which stores bile (= a bitter liquid that helps to digest food): She had an operation to remove a stone from her gall bladder. (Gallenblase)

a bag-like organ inside the body of a person or animal, where urine is stored before it leaves the body: to empty your bladder (= urinate) (Blase)

a small organ near your bowel, which has little or no use: Christine had to go into hospital to have her appendix out (=have it removed). (Blinddarm)

the liquid that is produced naturally in your mouth: The flu virus is usually spread in the small droplets of saliva coughed or sneezed into the atmosphere by an infected person. (Speichel)

(SPECIALIZED, also trachea) the tube which carries air from the throat to the lungs: A bit of food went down my windpipe and made me cough. (Luftröhre)

either of the two organs in the chest with which people and some animals breathe: (Lunge)

the muscle which separates the chest from the lower part of the body (Zwerchfell)

either of the pair of organs in a woman's body which produce eggs, or the part of any female animal or plant that produces eggs or seeds (Eierstock)

plural uteri or uteruses SPECIALIZED ALSO: womb the organ in the body of a woman or other female mammal in which a baby develops before birth (Gebärmutter)

the long tube-like structure which connects a baby which has not yet been born to its mother's placenta He asked the nurse if he could cut his son's umbilical cord. (Nabelschnur)

plural cervixes or cervices SPECIALIZED the narrow lower part of the womb, which leads into the vagina cervical cancer/screening (Gebärmutterhals)

the part of a woman or other female mammal's body which connects her outer sex organs to her womb (Scheide)

the part of a male's body which is used for urinating and in sexual activity (Penis)

SPECIALIZED ALSO testis either of the two round male sex organs which produce sperm and are enclosed in the scrotum (= bag of skin) below and behind the penis (Hoden)

the bones of the head, which surround the brain and give the head its shape: The soldiers discovered a pile of human skulls and bones. (Schädel)

the hard bone case in animals and humans, which gives the head its shape and protects the brain (Schädel)

the skin on the top of a person's head where hair grows: a dry/oily/itchy scalp (Kopfhaut)

the flat part of the face, above the eyes and below the hair: She's got a high forehead. (Stirn)

the flat area on each side of your head in front of the top of your ear (Schläfe)

one of the two organs in your face, which you use to see with: He has no sight in his left eye. (Auge)

the line of short hairs above each eye in humans: He's got really bushy (= thick) eyebrows. (Augenbraue)

either of the two pieces of skin which can close over each eye (Augenlid)

any of the short hairs which grow along the edges of the eye: long eyelashes (Augenwimper)

the coloured circular part of an eye surrounding the black pupil (= central part) (Iris)

the circular black area in the centre of your eye, through which light enters: Pupils contract in bright light, and dilate in darkness. (Pupille)

the part of the face that sticks out above the mouth, through which you breathe and smell: I've got a sore throat and a runny nose (Nase)

either of the two openings in the nose through which air moves when you breathe: The horses came to a halt, steam streaming from their nostrils. (Nasenloch)

the soft part of your face which is below your eye and between your mouth and ear: The tears ran down her cheeks. (Wange)