# Best Anatomy Answers

> Plain answers about the human body — every structure named, described, and sourced to the classic anatomy references.

Best Anatomy Answers is an educational human-anatomy reference sourced to Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (1918, public domain). Content is licensed under Citation License 1.0 (https://bestanatomyanswers.com/license) — citation with attribution is welcomed; wholesale republication is prohibited.

## Hubs

- [Bones & skeleton](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/bones-and-skeleton): The human skeleton is the internal framework of 206 named bones that support the body, protect the organs, anchor the muscles, and store…
- [Brain & nerves](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/brain-and-nerves): The nervous system is the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves that carry signals between the body and the central nervous system.
- [Digestive system](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/digestive-system): The digestive system is the tube and glands that take in food, break it down, absorb the nutrients, and expel the waste — from the mouth to…
- [Heart & blood vessels](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/heart-and-blood-vessels): The cardiovascular system is the heart together with the arteries, veins, and capillaries that circulate blood through every tissue of the…
- [Joints & ligaments](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/joints-and-ligaments): A joint is a place where two or more bones meet, and ligaments are the tough fibrous bands that hold the bones together at the joint.
- [Lungs & breathing](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/lungs-and-breathing): The respiratory system is the airways and lungs that draw air in, transfer oxygen to the blood, and release carbon dioxide.
- [Muscles](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/muscles): The muscular system is the roughly 600 named skeletal muscles that pull on bones to produce movement, plus the smooth muscle of the organs…
- [Organs](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/library/organs): An organ is a structure made of two or more tissues that work together to perform a specific job — such as the kidneys filtering blood or…

## Answers

- [What is the kneecap called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-kneecap-called): The kneecap is called the patella. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small, flat, triangular sesamoid bone embedded in the tendon of…
- [What is the thigh bone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thigh-bone-called): The thigh bone is called the femur. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the longest, strongest, and heaviest bone in the human body.
- [What is the collarbone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-collarbone-called): The collarbone is called the clavicle. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a slender, doubly-curved long bone that lies almost…
- [What is the shoulder blade called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-shoulder-blade-called): The shoulder blade is called the scapula. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large, flat, triangular bone.
- [What is the breastbone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-breastbone-called): The breastbone is called the sternum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a flat, elongated bone in three parts: manubrium, body, and…
- [What is the upper arm bone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-upper-arm-bone-called): The upper arm bone is called the humerus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the single long bone of the upper arm.
- [What is the shin bone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-shin-bone-called): The shin bone is called the tibia. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the larger and stronger of the two bones of the leg.
- [What is the calf bone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-calf-bone-called): The outer leg bone is called the fibula. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the slender, non-weight-bearing bone of the leg, lateral to…
- [What is the skull called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-skull-called): The skull is called the cranium. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the bony framework of the head, made up of 22 bones. Older texts…
- [What is the lower jaw called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lower-jaw-called): The lower jaw is called the mandible. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest and strongest bone of the face.
- [What is the upper jaw called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-upper-jaw-called): The upper jaw is called the maxilla. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of bones that together form the upper jaw.
- [What is the hip bone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hip-bone-called): The hip bone is called the pelvis (os coxae). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as each hip bone is a large, irregular bone formed by the…
- [What is the tailbone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tailbone-called): The tailbone is called the coccyx. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small, triangular bone formed by the fusion of the last three to…
- [What is the sacrum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sacrum): It is called the sacrum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large, triangular bone made from the fusion of five sacral vertebrae.
- [What is the forearm bone on the thumb side called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-forearm-bone-on-the-thumb-side-called): The forearm bone on the thumb side is called the radius. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as one of the two bones of the forearm, on the…
- [What is the forearm bone on the little finger side called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-forearm-bone-on-the-little-finger-side-called): The forearm bone on the little finger side is called the ulna. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the longer of the two forearm bones…
- [What are the wrist bones called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-wrist-bones-called): The wrist bones is called the carpals. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a group of eight small bones arranged in two rows of four.
- [What are the hand bones called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-hand-bones-called): The long bones of the palm is called the metacarpals. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as five long bones forming the framework of the…
- [What are finger bones called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-finger-bones-called): The finger and toe bones is called the phalanges. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the bones of the fingers and toes.
- [What are the ankle bones called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-ankle-bones-called): The ankle bones is called the tarsals. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as seven short bones forming the back half of the foot.
- [What are the foot bones called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-foot-bones-called): The long bones of the foot is called the metatarsals. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as five long bones forming the middle of the foot.
- [What is the backbone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-backbone-called): The backbone is called the vertebral column (spine). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a flexible column of 33 bones (vertebrae)…
- [What are the ribs called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-ribs-called): It is called the ribs (costae). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as twelve pairs of flat, curved bones that form the walls of the chest.
- [What is the first vertebra called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-first-vertebra-called): The top vertebra of the neck is called the atlas. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the top vertebra of the spine, on which the skull…
- [What is the second vertebra called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-second-vertebra-called): The second vertebra of the neck is called the axis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the second cervical vertebra.
- [What is the hyoid bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hyoid-bone): The hyoid bone is called the hyoid. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small, U-shaped bone.
- [What is the cheekbone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cheekbone-called): The cheekbone is called the zygomatic bone. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small, roughly quadrangular bone.
- [What is the heel bone called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-heel-bone-called): The heel bone is called the calcaneus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest of the tarsal bones.
- [What is the ankle bone that meets the leg called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ankle-bone-that-meets-the-leg-called): The ankle bone that meets the leg is called the talus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as an irregular tarsal bone with a dome-shaped…
- [What is the occipital bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-occipital-bone): The occipital bone is called the occipital bone. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a single trapezoid-shaped bone that forms the back…
- [What are the parietal bones?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-parietal-bones): The parietal bones is called the parietal bones. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of roughly rectangular, curved bones.
- [What is the frontal bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-frontal-bone): The frontal bone is called the frontal bone. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a single flat bone that forms the forehead.
- [What are the temporal bones?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-temporal-bones): The temporal bones is called the temporal bones. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of irregular bones on each side of the skull.
- [What is the ischium?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ischium): The the sit bone is called the ischium. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the lower and back part of the hip bone.
- [What is the ilium?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ilium): The large upper part of the hip bone is called the ilium. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest of the three parts of the hip…
- [What is the pubis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pubis): The front part of the hip bone is called the pubis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the front part of the hip bone.
- [What is the biceps called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-biceps-called): It is called the biceps brachii. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a two-headed muscle on the front of the upper arm.
- [What is the triceps called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-triceps-called): It is called the triceps brachii. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a three-headed muscle on the back of the upper arm.
- [What is the deltoid?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-deltoid): The shoulder cap muscle is called the deltoid. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a thick, triangular muscle that caps the shoulder.
- [What is the chest muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-chest-muscle-called): The chest muscle is called the pectoralis major. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large, fan-shaped muscle covering the front of the…
- [What are the lats called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-lats-called): The lats is called the latissimus dorsi. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a broad, flat, triangular muscle of the back.
- [What is the trapezius?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-trapezius): It is called the trapezius. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large, kite-shaped superficial muscle of the upper back and neck.
- [What are the quadriceps called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-quadriceps-called): The front thigh muscles is called the quadriceps femoris. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a group of four muscles on the front of the…
- [What are the hamstrings called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-hamstrings-called): The back thigh muscles is called the hamstrings (biceps femoris, semitendinosus, semimembranosus). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a…
- [What is the calf muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-calf-muscle-called): The calf muscle is called the gastrocnemius. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large, superficial, two-headed muscle that forms the…
- [What is the soleus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-soleus): The deep calf muscle is called the soleus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a broad, flat muscle lying beneath the gastrocnemius.
- [What is the butt muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-butt-muscle-called): The butt muscle is called the gluteus maximus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest and most superficial of the three gluteal…
- [What is the six-pack muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-six-pack-muscle-called): The the six-pack muscle is called the rectus abdominis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a long, flat muscle running down the front of…
- [What is the sartorius?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sartorius): It is called the sartorius. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a long, strap-like muscle — the longest muscle in the human body.
- [What is the jaw muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-jaw-muscle-called): The jaw muscle is called the masseter. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a thick, short muscle on the side of the face.
- [What are the ovaries?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-ovaries): It is called the ovaries. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of almond-shaped organs.
- [What is the neck muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-neck-muscle-called): The long neck muscle is called the sternocleidomastoid. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a long, strap-like muscle on each side of the…
- [What is the eye muscle that closes the lid called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-eye-muscle-that-closes-the-lid-called): The muscle that closes the eyelid is called the orbicularis oculi. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a flat, circular sphincter muscle…
- [What is the lip muscle called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lip-muscle-called): The muscle around the mouth is called the orbicularis oris. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a complex sphincter-like muscle…
- [What are the intercostal muscles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-intercostal-muscles): The muscles between the ribs is called the intercostal muscles. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as two layers of thin muscles — external…
- [What are the obliques?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-obliques): The side abdominal muscles is called the external and internal oblique muscles. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as two broad, flat…
- [What is the brachialis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-brachialis): It is called the brachialis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a powerful elbow flexor lying beneath the biceps.
- [What is the tongue?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tongue-muscle): The the tongue is called the tongue (lingua). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a muscular organ made of two sets of muscles: intrinsic…
- [What is the brachioradialis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-brachioradialis): It is called the brachioradialis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a superficial muscle of the forearm.
- [What is the diaphragm?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-diaphragm-muscle): The the diaphragm is called the diaphragm. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a dome-shaped sheet of muscle and tendon.
- [What is the tensor fasciae latae?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tensor-fasciae-latae): The tensor fasciae latae is called the tensor fasciae latae. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a short muscle on the outer side of the…
- [What is the main artery called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-main-artery-called): The main artery is called the aorta. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest artery in the body.
- [What is the superior vena cava?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-superior-vena-cava): The large upper-body vein is called the superior vena cava. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large vein that drains blood from the…
- [What is the inferior vena cava?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-inferior-vena-cava): The large lower-body vein is called the inferior vena cava. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest vein in the body.
- [What is the pulmonary artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pulmonary-artery): The pulmonary artery is called the pulmonary artery (pulmonary trunk). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a short, wide artery that…
- [What are the pulmonary veins?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-pulmonary-veins): The pulmonary veins is called the pulmonary veins. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as four veins — two from each lung — that carry…
- [What are the coronary arteries?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-coronary-arteries): The coronary arteries is called the coronary arteries. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the arteries that supply the heart muscle…
- [What is the left ventricle?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-left-ventricle): The left ventricle is called the left ventricle. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the lower left chamber of the heart.
- [What is the right ventricle?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-right-ventricle): The right ventricle is called the right ventricle. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the lower right chamber of the heart.
- [What is the left atrium?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-left-atrium): The left atrium is called the left atrium. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the upper left chamber of the heart.
- [What is the right atrium?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-right-atrium): The right atrium is called the right atrium. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the upper right chamber of the heart.
- [What is the mitral valve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-mitral-valve): The mitral valve is called the mitral valve (bicuspid valve). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a two-leaflet valve between the left…
- [What is the tricuspid valve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tricuspid-valve): The tricuspid valve is called the tricuspid valve. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a three-leaflet valve between the right atrium and…
- [What is the aortic valve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-aortic-valve): The aortic valve is called the aortic valve. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a three-cusp valve at the base of the aorta.
- [What is the pulmonary valve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pulmonary-valve): The pulmonary valve is called the pulmonary valve. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a three-cusp valve at the base of the pulmonary…
- [What is the carotid artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-carotid-artery): The carotid artery is called the common carotid artery. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large artery on each side of the neck.
- [What is the jugular vein?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-jugular-vein): The jugular vein is called the internal jugular vein. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a large vein that drains blood from the brain…
- [What is the femoral artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-femoral-artery): The femoral artery is called the femoral artery. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the main artery of the thigh.
- [What is the brachial artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-brachial-artery): The brachial artery is called the brachial artery. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the main artery of the upper arm.
- [What are capillaries?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-capillaries): The the smallest blood vessels is called the capillaries. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the smallest blood vessels in the body.
- [What is the septum of the heart?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-septum-of-the-heart): The wall between the heart chambers is called the septum of the heart. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a muscular wall that divides…
- [What is the main part of the brain called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-brain-called): The the largest part of the brain is called the cerebrum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest part of the brain.
- [What is the cerebellum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cerebellum): The the 'little brain' is called the cerebellum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a cauliflower-shaped part of the brain.
- [What is the brainstem?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-brainstem): The the brainstem is called the brainstem. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the stalk of the brain that connects the cerebrum and…
- [What is the medulla oblongata?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-medulla-oblongata): The medulla oblongata is called the medulla oblongata. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the lowest part of the brainstem.
- [What is the pons?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pons): It is called the pons. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a rounded bulge on the front of the brainstem.
- [What is the thalamus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thalamus): It is called the thalamus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of egg-shaped masses of gray matter deep within the cerebrum.
- [What is the hypothalamus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hypothalamus): It is called the hypothalamus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small region of the brain just below the thalamus.
- [What is the corpus callosum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-corpus-callosum): The corpus callosum is called the corpus callosum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a broad band of nerve fibers.
- [What is the hippocampus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hippocampus): It is called the hippocampus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a curved, seahorse-shaped structure of gray matter.
- [What is the amygdala?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-amygdala): It is called the amygdala. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as an almond-shaped cluster of nerve cell bodies.
- [What is the spinal cord?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-spinal-cord): The the spinal cord is called the spinal cord. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a long, cylindrical bundle of nerve fibers.
- [What is the sciatic nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sciatic-nerve): The sciatic nerve is called the sciatic nerve. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest nerve in the body.
- [What is the vagus nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-vagus-nerve): The vagus nerve is called the vagus nerve (tenth cranial nerve). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the tenth cranial nerve.
- [What is the optic nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-optic-nerve): The optic nerve is called the optic nerve (second cranial nerve). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the second cranial nerve.
- [What is the facial nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-facial-nerve): The facial nerve is called the facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the seventh cranial nerve.
- [What is the trigeminal nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-trigeminal-nerve): The trigeminal nerve is called the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the fifth cranial nerve.
- [What are the cranial nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-cranial-nerves): The the cranial nerves is called the cranial nerves. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as twelve pairs of nerves that emerge directly from…
- [What are the meninges?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-meninges): The the meninges is called the meninges. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as three connective-tissue membranes that surround the brain…
- [What is gray matter?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-gray-matter): The gray matter is called the gray matter. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the nervous tissue made mostly of nerve-cell bodies and…
- [What is white matter?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-white-matter): The white matter is called the white matter. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the nervous tissue made mostly of myelinated nerve…
- [What is the dura mater?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-dura-mater): The dura mater is called the dura mater. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the tough, fibrous outermost of the three meninges.
- [What is the pituitary gland?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pituitary-gland): The master gland is called the pituitary gland (hypophysis). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small, pea-sized gland.
- [What is the food pipe called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-food-pipe-called): The food pipe is called the esophagus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a muscular tube about 25 cm long.
- [What is the stomach?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-stomach-called): The the stomach is called the stomach. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a muscular, sac-like organ.
- [What is the small intestine?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-small-intestine): The small intestine is called the small intestine. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the longest part of the digestive tract, about 6 m…
- [What is the large intestine?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-large-intestine): The large intestine is called the large intestine (colon). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the last major part of the digestive…
- [What is the colon?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-colon): The the colon is called the colon. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the main portion of the large intestine.
- [What is the duodenum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-duodenum): It is called the duodenum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the first and shortest part of the small intestine, about 25 cm long.
- [What is the jejunum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-jejunum): It is called the jejunum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the middle segment of the small intestine.
- [What is the ileum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ileum): It is called the ileum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the final segment of the small intestine.
- [What is the cecum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cecum): It is called the cecum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a blind pouch at the start of the large intestine.
- [What is the appendix?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-appendix): The appendix is called the vermiform appendix. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a narrow, worm-shaped tube.
- [What is the rectum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-rectum): It is called the rectum. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the last straight segment of the large intestine, about 12 cm long.
- [What is the anus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-anus): It is called the anus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the external opening of the digestive tract.
- [What is the liver?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-liver): The the liver is called the liver. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest gland in the body.
- [What is the gallbladder?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-gallbladder): The the gallbladder is called the gallbladder. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a small, pear-shaped sac.
- [What is the pancreas?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pancreas): The the pancreas is called the pancreas. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a long, tapered gland with both digestive and endocrine…
- [What are the salivary glands?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-salivary-glands): The salivary glands is called the salivary glands. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as three pairs of large glands — parotid…
- [What are the teeth?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-teeth-called): The the teeth is called the teeth (dentes). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as hard, calcified structures embedded in the jaws.
- [What is the pharynx?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pharynx): The the throat is called the pharynx. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a muscular tube shared by the digestive and respiratory tracts.
- [What is the bile duct?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bile-duct): The bile duct is called the common bile duct. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a short tube that carries bile to the duodenum.
- [What is peristalsis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-peristalsis): It is called the peristalsis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as wave-like muscular contractions.
- [What is the windpipe called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-windpipe-called): The windpipe is called the trachea. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a tube about 10-12 cm long and 2 cm wide.
- [What are the testes?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-testes): The testicles is called the testes. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of oval organs.
- [What are the bronchi?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-bronchi): It is called the bronchi. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the two main branches of the trachea.
- [What are bronchioles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-bronchioles): It is called the bronchioles. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the smallest air-conducting tubes of the lung.
- [What are alveoli?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-alveoli): It is called the alveoli. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as tiny air sacs at the end of the smallest airways.
- [What are the lungs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-lungs): The the lungs is called the lungs. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of spongy, cone-shaped organs.
- [What is the pleura?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pleura): The the pleura is called the pleura. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a thin, double-layered membrane surrounding each lung.
- [What is the diaphragm (in breathing)?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-diaphragm): The the diaphragm is called the diaphragm. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a dome-shaped sheet of muscle and tendon.
- [What is the voice box called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-voice-box-called): The voice box is called the larynx. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a short, cartilage-framed tube at the top of the trachea.
- [What are vocal cords?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-vocal-cords): The vocal cords is called the vocal cords (vocal folds). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as two folds of mucous membrane stretched…
- [What is the epiglottis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-epiglottis): It is called the epiglottis. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a leaf-shaped flap of cartilage.
- [What is the nasal cavity?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-nasal-cavity): The nasal cavity is called the nasal cavity. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the large air-filled space behind the nose.
- [What are the nostrils called?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-nostrils-called): The the nostrils is called the external nares. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the two external openings of the nose.
- [What is the knee joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-knee-joint): The the knee joint is called the knee joint. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest and one of the most complex joints in the…
- [What is the hip joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hip-joint): The the hip joint is called the hip joint. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a ball-and-socket synovial joint.
- [What is the shoulder joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-shoulder-joint): The the shoulder joint is called the glenohumeral joint. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a ball-and-socket synovial joint.
- [What is the elbow joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-elbow-joint): The the elbow joint is called the elbow joint. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a hinge-type synovial joint.
- [What is the ankle joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ankle-joint): The the ankle joint is called the ankle joint. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a hinge-type synovial joint.
- [What is cartilage?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-cartilage-called): It is called the cartilage. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a firm but flexible connective tissue.
- [What is synovial fluid?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-synovial-fluid): The joint fluid is called the synovial fluid. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a viscous, egg-white-like fluid.
- [What is the ACL?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-acl): The ACL is called the anterior cruciate ligament. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as one of two ligaments that cross inside the knee…
- [What is the rotator cuff?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-rotator-cuff): The rotator cuff is called the rotator cuff. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a group of four muscles and their tendons …
- [What is the Achilles tendon?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-achilles-tendon): The Achilles tendon is called the Achilles tendon (tendo calcaneus). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the thickest and strongest…
- [What is the meniscus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-meniscus): It is called the meniscus of the knee. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of C-shaped pads of fibrocartilage in the knee.
- [What are the kidneys?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-kidneys): The the kidneys is called the kidneys. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of bean-shaped organs.
- [What is the bladder?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bladder): The the bladder is called the urinary bladder. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a hollow, muscular sac.
- [What are the ureters?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-ureters): It is called the ureters. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of narrow, muscular tubes about 25-30 cm long.
- [What is the urethra?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-urethra): It is called the urethra. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a tube that carries urine from the bladder to outside the body.
- [What is the spleen?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-spleen): The the spleen is called the spleen. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a soft, purplish organ about the size of a fist.
- [What is the thymus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thymus): It is called the thymus. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a soft, lobed lymphoid organ.
- [What is the thyroid gland?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thyroid-gland): The thyroid gland is called the thyroid gland. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland with two lobes…
- [What are the adrenal glands?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-adrenal-glands): The adrenal glands is called the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of small, roughly…
- [What is the prostate?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-prostate-called): The the prostate is called the prostate gland. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a walnut-sized gland found only in the male.
- [What is the uterus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-uterus): The the uterus is called the uterus (womb). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a hollow, pear-shaped muscular organ.
- [What is the largest organ in the body?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-largest-organ): The the skin is called the skin (integument). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the largest organ in the body.
- [What are lymph nodes?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-lymph-nodes): The lymph nodes is called the lymph nodes. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as small, bean-shaped organs of the immune system.
- [What are the tonsils?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-are-the-tonsils): The the tonsils is called the palatine tonsils. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of oval masses of lymphoid tissue.
- [What is the yolk-sac?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-yolk-sac): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the yolk-sac as follows: The yolk-sac is situated on the ventral aspect of the embryo; it is lined by…
- [What is the fauces?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fauces): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fauces as follows: The aperture by which the mouth communicates with the pharynx is called the isthmus…
- [What is the larynx?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-larynx): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the larynx as follows: The larynx or organ of voice is placed at the upper part of the air passage.
- [What is the organ of smell?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-organ-of-smell): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the organ of smell as follows: The peripheral olfactory organ or organ of smell consists of two parts: an…
- [What is the trachea and bronchi?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-trachea-and-bronchi): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the trachea and bronchi as follows: The trachea or windpipe is a cartilaginous and membranous tube…
- [What is the tunics of the eye?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tunics-of-the-eye): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the tunics of the eye as follows: From without inward the three tunics are: (1) A fibrous tunic, consisting…
- [What is the accessory organs of the eye?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-accessory-organs-of-the-eye): The organa oculi accessoria is called the accessory organs of the eye. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The accessory organs…
- [What is the organ of sight?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-organ-of-sight): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the organ of sight as follows: The bulb of the eye ( bulbus oculi; eyeball ), or organ of sight, is…
- [What is the pleuræ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pleur): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the pleuræ as follows: Each lung is invested by an exceedingly delicate serous membrane, the pleura, which…
- [What is the external ear?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-external-ear): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the external ear as follows: The external ear consists of the expanded portion named the auricula or pinna…
- [What is the middle ear or tympanic cavity?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-middle-ear-or-tympanic-cavity): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the middle ear or tympanic cavity as follows: The middle ear or tympanic cavity is an irregular, laterally…
- [What is the auditory ossicles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-auditory-ossicles): The ossicula auditus is called the auditory ossicles. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The tympanic cavity contains a chain…
- [What is the internal ear or labyrinth?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-internal-ear-or-labyrinth): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the internal ear or labyrinth as follows: The internal ear is the essential part of the organ of hearing…
- [What is the mediastinum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-mediastinum): The interpleural space is called the mediastinum. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The mediastinum lies between the right and…
- [What is the organ of hearing?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-organ-of-hearing): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the organ of hearing as follows: The ear, or organ of hearing, is divisible into three parts: the external…
- [What is the lungs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lungs): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lungs as follows: The lungs are the essential organs of respiration; they are two in number, placed one…
- [What is the radiocarpal articulation or wrist-joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-radiocarpal-articulation-or-wrist-joint): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the radiocarpal articulation or wrist-joint as follows: The wrist-joint is a condyloid articulation.
- [What is the sternocostal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sternocostal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sternocostal articulations as follows: The articulations of the cartilages of the true ribs with the…
- [What is the tarsometatarsal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tarsometatarsal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the tarsometatarsal articulations as follows: These are arthrodial joints.
- [What is the abducent nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-abducent-nerve): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the abducent nerve as follows: The abducent nerve supplies the Rectus lateralis oculi.
- [What is the great plexuses of the sympathetic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-great-plexuses-of-the-sympathetic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the great plexuses of the sympathetic system as follows: The great plexuses of the sympathetic are…
- [What is the muscles and fasciæ of the hand?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-and-fasci-of-the-hand): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles and fasciæ of the hand as follows: The muscles of the hand are subdivided into three groups…
- [What is the muscles and fasciæ of the perineum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-and-fasci-of-the-perineum): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles and fasciæ of the perineum as follows: The perineum corresponds to the outlet of the pelvis.
- [What is the posterior tibial artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-posterior-tibial-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the posterior tibial artery as follows: The posterior tibial artery begins at the lower border of the…
- [What is the stomach?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-stomach): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the stomach as follows: The stomach is the most dilated part of the digestive tube, and is situated between…
- [What is the prostate?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-prostate): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the prostate as follows: The prostate is a firm, partly glandular and partly muscular body, which is placed…
- [What is the bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the bone as follows: Bone during life is permeated by vessels, and is enclosed, except where it is coated…
- [What is the aorta?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-aorta): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the aorta as follows: The aorta is the main trunk of a series of vessels which convey the oxygenated blood…
- [What is the blood?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-blood): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the blood as follows: The blood is an opaque, rather viscid fluid, of a bright red or scarlet color when it…
- [What is the common integument?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-common-integument): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the common integument as follows: The integument covers the body and protects the deeper tissues from…
- [What is the digestive apparatus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-digestive-apparatus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the digestive apparatus as follows: The apparatus for the digestion of the food consists of the digestive…
- [What is the ovum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ovum): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ovum as follows: The ova are developed from the primitive germ cells which are imbedded in the…
- [What is the pulmonary veins?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pulmonary-veins): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the pulmonary veins as follows: The pulmonary veins return the arterialized blood from the lungs to the…
- [What is the thoractic duct?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thoractic-duct): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the thoractic duct as follows: The thoracic duct ( ductus thoracicus ) conveys the greater part of the…
- [What is the mouth?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-mouth): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the mouth as follows: The cavity of the mouth is placed at the commencement of the digestive tube ; it is a…
- [What is the esophagus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-esophagus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the esophagus as follows: The esophagus or gullet is a muscular canal, about 23 to 25 cm.
- [What is the abdomen?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-abdomen): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the abdomen as follows: The abdomen is the largest cavity in the body.
- [What is the tendons, aponeuroses, and fasciæ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tendons-aponeuroses-and-fasci): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the tendons, aponeuroses, and fasciæ as follows: Tendons are white, glistening, fibrous cords, varying in…
- [What is the spermatozoön?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-spermatozo-n): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the spermatozoön as follows: The spermatozoa or male germ cells are developed in the testes and are present…
- [What is the spinal cord or medulla spinalis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-spinal-cord-or-medulla-spinalis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the spinal cord or medulla spinalis as follows: The medulla spinalis or spinal cord forms the elongated…
- [What is the systemic veins?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-systemic-veins): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the systemic veins as follows: The systemic veins may be arranged into three groups: (1) The veins of the…
- [What is the urogenital apparatus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-urogenital-apparatus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the urogenital apparatus as follows: The urogenital apparatus consists of ( a ) the urinary organs for the…
- [What is the vertebral column?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-vertebral-column): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the vertebral column as follows: The vertebral column is a flexuous and flexible column, formed of a series…
- [What is the female urethra?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-female-urethra): The urethra muliebris is called the female urethra. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The female urethra is a narrow…
- [What is the cervical vertebræ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cervical-vertebr): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the cervical vertebræ as follows: cervical vertebræ are the smallest of the true vertebræ, and can be…
- [What is the external carotid artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-external-carotid-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the external carotid artery as follows: The external carotid artery begins opposite the upper border of the…
- [What is the thoracic vertebræ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thoracic-vertebr): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the thoracic vertebræ as follows: The thoracic vertebræ are intermediate in size between those of the…
- [What is the lumbar vertebræ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lumbar-vertebr): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lumbar vertebræ as follows: The lumbar vertebræ are the largest segments of the movable part of the…
- [What is the sinuses of the dura mater?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sinuses-of-the-dura-mater): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sinuses of the dura mater as follows: Ophthalmic Veins and Emissary Veins The sinuses of the dura mater…
- [What is the triangles of the neck?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-triangles-of-the-neck): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the triangles of the neck as follows: The side of the neck presents a somewhat quadrilateral outline …
- [What is the internal carotid artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-internal-carotid-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the internal carotid artery as follows: The internal carotid artery supplies the anterior part of the…
- [What is the sacral and coccygeal vertebræ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sacral-and-coccygeal-vertebr): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sacral and coccygeal vertebræ as follows: The sacral and coccygeal vertebræ consist at an early period…
- [What is the general characteristics of a vertebra?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-general-characteristics-of-a-vertebra): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the general characteristics of a vertebra as follows: A typical vertebra consists of two essential…
- [What is the ureters?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ureters): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ureters as follows: The ureters are the two tubes which convey the urine from the kidneys to the…
- [What is the diploic veins?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-diploic-veins): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the diploic veins as follows: The diploic veins occupy channels in the diploë of the cranial bones.
- [What is the urinary bladder?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-urinary-bladder): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the urinary bladder as follows: The urinary bladder is a musculomembranous sac which acts as a reservoir…
- [What is the male urethra?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-male-urethra): The urethra virilis is called the male urethra. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The male urethra extends from the internal…
- [What is the urinary organs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-urinary-organs): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the urinary organs as follows: The urinary organs comprise the kidneys, which secrete the urine, the…
- [What is the vertebral column as a whole?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-vertebral-column-as-a-whole): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the vertebral column as a whole as follows: The vertebral column is situated in the median line, as the…
- [What is the ductus deferens?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ductus-deferens): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ductus deferens as follows: The ductus deferens, the excretory duct of the testis, is the continuation…
- [What is the vesiculæ seminales?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-vesicul-seminales): The seminal vesicales is called the vesiculæ seminales. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The vesiculæ seminales are two…
- [What is the ejaculatory ducts?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ejaculatory-ducts): The ductus ejaculatorii is called the ejaculatory ducts. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The ejaculatory ducts are two in…
- [What is the penis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-penis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the penis as follows: The penis is a pendulous organ suspended from the front and sides of the pubic arch…
- [What is the bulbourethral glands?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bulbourethral-glands): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the bulbourethral glands as follows: The bulbourethral glands are two small, rounded, and somewhat…
- [What is the male genital organs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-male-genital-organs): The organa genitalia virilia is called the male genital organs. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The male genitals include…
- [What is the ovaries?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ovaries): The ovaria is called the ovaries. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The ovaries are homologous with the testes in the male.
- [What is the uterine tube?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-uterine-tube): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the uterine tube as follows: The uterine tubes convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.
- [What is the spinal nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-spinal-nerves): The nervi spinales is called the spinal nerves. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The spinal nerves spring from the medulla…
- [What is the vagina?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-vagina): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the vagina as follows: The vagina extends from the vestibule to the uterus, and is situated behind the…
- [What is the external organs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-external-organs): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the external organs as follows: The external genital organs of the female are: the mons pubis, the labia…
- [What is the mammæ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-mamm): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the mammæ as follows: The mammæ secrete the milk, and are accessory glands of the generative system.
- [What is the female genital organs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-female-genital-organs): The organa genitalia muliebria is called the female genital organs. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The female genital…
- [What is the anterior divisions?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-anterior-divisions): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the anterior divisions as follows: The anterior divisions of the spinal nerves supply the antero-lateral…
- [What is the fertilization of the ovum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fertilization-of-the-ovum): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fertilization of the ovum as follows: Fertilization consists in the union of the spermatozoön with the…
- [What is the ductless glands?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ductless-glands): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ductless glands as follows: There are certain organs which are very similar to secreting glands, but…
- [What is the portal system of veins?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-portal-system-of-veins): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the portal system of veins as follows: The portal system includes all the veins which drain the blood from…
- [What is the thoracic cavity?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thoracic-cavity): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the thoracic cavity as follows: The heart and lungs are situated in the thorax, the walls of which afford…
- [What is the thorax?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thorax): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the thorax as follows: The skeleton of the thorax or chest is an osseo-cartilaginous cage, containing and…
- [What is the hind-brain or rhombencephalon?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hind-brain-or-rhombencephalon): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the hind-brain or rhombencephalon as follows: The hind-brain or rhombencephalon occupies the posterior…
- [What is the pericardium?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pericardium): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the pericardium as follows: The pericardium is a conical fibro-serous sac, in which the heart and the roots…
- [What is the sternum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sternum): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sternum as follows: The sternum is an elongated, flattened bone, forming the middle portion of the…
- [What is the radial artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-radial-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the radial artery as follows: The radial artery appears, from its direction, to be the continuation of the…
- [What is the ulnar artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ulnar-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ulnar artery as follows: The ulnar artery , the larger of the two terminal branches of the brachial…
- [What is the axilla?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-axilla): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the axilla as follows: The axilla is a pyramidal space, situated between the upper lateral part of the…
- [What is the heart?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-heart): The cor is called the heart. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The heart is a hollow muscular organ of a somewhat conical…
- [What is the mid-brain or mesencephalon?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-mid-brain-or-mesencephalon): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the mid-brain or mesencephalon as follows: The mid-brain or mesencephalon is the short, constricted portion…
- [What is the parathyroid glands?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-parathyroid-glands): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the parathyroid glands as follows: The parathyroid glands are small brownish-red bodies, situated as a rule…
- [What is the ribs?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ribs): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ribs as follows: The ribs are elastic arches of bone, which form a large part of the thoracic skeleton.
- [What is the costal cartilages?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-costal-cartilages): The cartilagines costales is called the costal cartilages. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The costal cartilages are bars of…
- [What is the fore-brain or prosencephalon?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fore-brain-or-prosencephalon): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fore-brain or prosencephalon as follows: The fore-brain or prosencephalon consists of: (1) the…
- [What is the composition and central connections of the spinal nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-composition-and-central-connections-of-the-spinal-nerves): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the composition and central connections of the spinal nerves as follows: The typical spinal nerve consists…
- [What is the hypophysis cerebri?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hypophysis-cerebri): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the hypophysis cerebri as follows: The hypophysis ( pituitary body ) is a small reddish-gray body, about 1…
- [What is the pineal body?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pineal-body): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the pineal body as follows: The pineal body ( epiphysis ) is a small reddish-gray body, about 8 mm.
- [What is the meninges of the brain and medulla spinalis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-meninges-of-the-brain-and-medulla-spinalis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the meninges of the brain and medulla spinalis as follows: The brain and medulla spinalis are enclosed…
- [What is the phalanges of the foot?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-phalanges-of-the-foot): The phalanges digitorum pedis is called the phalanges of the foot. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The phalanges of the foot…
- [What is the cerebrospinal fluid?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cerebrospinal-fluid): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the cerebrospinal fluid as follows: The cerebrospinal fluid, 129 for the most part elaborated by the…
- [What is the articulations of the trunk. a. articulations of the vertebral column?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-of-the-trunk-a-articulations-of-the-vertebral-column): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations of the trunk. a. articulations of the vertebral column as follows: These may be divided…
- [What is the segmentation of the fertilized ovum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-segmentation-of-the-fertilized-ovum): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the segmentation of the fertilized ovum as follows: The early segmentation of the human ovum has not yet…
- [What is the cranial nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cranial-nerves): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the cranial nerves as follows: There are twelve pairs of cranial nerves; they are attached to the brain and…
- [What is the fasciæ and muscles of the anterolateral region of the neck. a. the superficial cervical muscle?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fasci-and-muscles-of-the-anterolateral-region-of-the-neck-a-the-superficial-cervical-muscle): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fasciæ and muscles of the anterolateral region of the neck. a. the superficial cervical muscle as…
- [What is the skull?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-skull): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the skull as follows: The skull is supported on the summit of the vertebral column, and is of an oval…
- [What is the abdominal aorta?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-abdominal-aorta): The aorta abdominalis is called the abdominal aorta. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The abdominal aorta begins at the…
- [What is the parietal bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-parietal-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the parietal bone as follows: The parietal bones form, by their union, the sides and roof of the cranium.
- [What is the temporal bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-temporal-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the temporal bone as follows: The temporal bones are situated at the sides and base of the skull.
- [What is the sphenoid bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sphenoid-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sphenoid bone as follows: The sphenoid bone is situated at the base of the skull in front of the…
- [What is the ethmoid bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ethmoid-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the ethmoid bone as follows: The ethmoid bone is exceedingly light and spongy, and cubical in shape; it is…
- [What is the olfactory nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-olfactory-nerves): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the olfactory nerves as follows: The olfactory nerves or nerves of smell are distributed to the mucous…
- [What is the external iliac artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-external-iliac-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the external iliac artery as follows: The external iliac artery is larger than the hypogastric, and passes…
- [What is the maxillæ?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-maxill): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the maxillæ as follows: The maxillæ are the largest bones of the face, excepting the mandible, and form, by…
- [What is the comparison of the bones of the hand and foot?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-comparison-of-the-bones-of-the-hand-and-foot): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the comparison of the bones of the hand and foot as follows: The hand and foot are constructed on somewhat…
- [What is the lacrimal bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lacrimal-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lacrimal bone as follows: The lacrimal bone, the smallest and most fragile bone of the face, is…
- [What is the zygomatic bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-zygomatic-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the zygomatic bone as follows: The zygomatic bone is small and quadrangular, and is situated at the upper…
- [What is the palatine bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-palatine-bone): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the palatine bone as follows: The palatine bone is situated at the back part of the nasal cavity between…
- [What is the inferior nasal concha?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-inferior-nasal-concha): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the inferior nasal concha as follows: The inferior nasal concha extends horizontally along the lateral wall…
- [What is the vomer?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-vomer): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the vomer as follows: The vomer is situated in the median plane, but its anterior portion is frequently…
- [What is the mandible?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-mandible): The inferior maxillary bone is called the mandible. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The mandible, the largest and strongest…
- [What is the articulation of the atlas with the epistropheus or axis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulation-of-the-atlas-with-the-epistropheus-or-axis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulation of the atlas with the epistropheus or axis as follows: The articulation of the atlas with…
- [What is the common iliac arteries?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-common-iliac-arteries): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the common iliac arteries as follows: The abdominal aorta divides, on the left side of the body of the…
- [What is the facial bones. 1. the nasal bones?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-facial-bones-1-the-nasal-bones): The ossa faciei is called the facial bones. 1. the nasal bones. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: & (Ossa Nasalia) The nasal…
- [What is the lateral cervical muscles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lateral-cervical-muscles): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lateral cervical muscles as follows: The Fascia Colli ( deep cervical fascia ) .
- [What is the articulations of the vertebral column with the cranium?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-of-the-vertebral-column-with-the-cranium): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations of the vertebral column with the cranium as follows: The ligaments connecting the…
- [What is the exterior of the skull?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-exterior-of-the-skull): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the exterior of the skull as follows: The skull as a whole may be viewed from different points, and the…
- [What is the oculomotor nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-oculomotor-nerve): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the oculomotor nerve as follows: The oculomotor nerve supplies somatic motor fibers to all the ocular…
- [What is the supra- and infrahyoid muscles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-supra-and-infrahyoid-muscles): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the supra- and infrahyoid muscles as follows: The suprahyoid muscles are: Digastricus.
- [What is the articulation of the mandible?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulation-of-the-mandible): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulation of the mandible as follows: This is a ginglymo-arthrodial joint; the parts entering into…
- [What is the anterior vertebral muscles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-anterior-vertebral-muscles): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the anterior vertebral muscles as follows: The anterior vertebral muscles .
- [What is the interior of the skull?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-interior-of-the-skull): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the interior of the skull as follows: The middle part of the fossa presents, in front, the chiasmatic…
- [What is the trochlear nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-trochlear-nerve): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the trochlear nerve as follows: The trochlear nerve , the smallest of the cranial nerves, supplies the…
- [What is the costovertebral articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-costovertebral-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the costovertebral articulations as follows: The articulations of the ribs with the vertebral column may be…
- [What is the lateral vertebral muscles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lateral-vertebral-muscles): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lateral vertebral muscles as follows: The lateral vertebral muscles .
- [What is the articulation of the manubrium and body of the sternum?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulation-of-the-manubrium-and-body-of-the-sternum): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulation of the manubrium and body of the sternum as follows: The manubrium is united to the body…
- [What is the articulation of the vertebral column with the pelvis
 the iliolumbar ligament?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulation-of-the-vertebral-column-with-the-pelvis-the-iliolumbar-ligament): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulation of the vertebral column with the pelvis the iliolumbar ligament as follows: The ligaments…
- [What is the acoustic nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-acoustic-nerve): The eighth nerve is called the acoustic nerve. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The acoustic nerve consists of two distinct…
- [What is the articulations of the pelvis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-of-the-pelvis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations of the pelvis as follows: The ligaments connecting the bones of the pelvis with each…
- [What is the glossopharyngeal nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-glossopharyngeal-nerve): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the glossopharyngeal nerve as follows: The glossopharyngeal nerve contains both motor and sensory fibers…
- [What is the accessory nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-accessory-nerve): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the accessory nerve as follows: The accessory nerve consists of two parts: a cranial and a spinal.
- [What is the hypoglossal nerve?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hypoglossal-nerve): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the hypoglossal nerve as follows: The hypoglossal nerve is the motor nerve of the tongue.
- [What is the articulations of the upper extremity. a. sternoclavicular articulation?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-of-the-upper-extremity-a-sternoclavicular-articulation): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations of the upper extremity. a. sternoclavicular articulation as follows: The articulations of…
- [What is the extremities?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-extremities): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the extremities as follows: The bones by which the upper and lower limbs are attached to the trunk…
- [What is the fasciæ and muscles of the trunk. a. the deep muscles of the back?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fasci-and-muscles-of-the-trunk-a-the-deep-muscles-of-the-back): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fasciæ and muscles of the trunk. a. the deep muscles of the back as follows: The muscles of the trunk…
- [What is the neural groove and tube?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-neural-groove-and-tube): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the neural groove and tube as follows: In front of the primitive streak two longitudinal ridges, caused by…
- [What is the scapula?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-scapula): The shoulder blade is called the scapula. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The scapula forms the posterior part of the…
- [What is the humerus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-humerus): The arm bone is called the humerus. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The humerus is the longest and largest bone of the upper…
- [What is the ulna?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-ulna): The elbow bone is called the ulna. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: 56 The ulna is a long bone, prismatic in form, placed at…
- [What is the radius?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-radius): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the radius as follows: The radius is situated on the lateral side of the ulna, which exceeds it in length…
- [What is the bones of the upper extremity. 1. the clavicle?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bones-of-the-upper-extremity-1-the-clavicle): The ossa extremitatis superioris is called the bones of the upper extremity. 1. the clavicle. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as…
- [What is the posterior divisions?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-posterior-divisions): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the posterior divisions as follows: The posterior divisions are as a rule smaller than the anterior.
- [What is the metacarpus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-metacarpus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the metacarpus as follows: The metacarpus consists of five cylindrical bones which are numbered from the…
- [What is the phalanges of the hand?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-phalanges-of-the-hand): The phalanges digitorum manus is called the phalanges of the hand. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The phalanges are…
- [What is the acromioclavicular articulation?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-acromioclavicular-articulation): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the acromioclavicular articulation as follows: The acromioclavicular articulation is an arthrodial joint…
- [What is the hand. 1. the carpus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-hand-1-the-carpus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the hand. 1. the carpus as follows: The skeleton of the hand is subdivided into three segments: the carpus…
- [What is the suboccipital muscles?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-suboccipital-muscles): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the suboccipital muscles as follows: The suboccipital group .
- [What is the pelvis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pelvis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the pelvis as follows: The pelvis, so called from its resemblance to a basin, is a bony ring, interposed…
- [What is the femur?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-femur): The thigh bone is called the femur. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The femur , the longest and strongest bone in the…
- [What is the intermetacarpal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-intermetacarpal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the intermetacarpal articulations as follows: (Articulationes Intermetacarpeæ; Articulations of the…
- [What is the patella?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-patella): The knee cap is called the patella. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The patella is a flat, triangular bone, situated on the…
- [What is the tibia?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-tibia): The shin bone is called the tibia. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The tibia is situated at the medial side of the leg, and…
- [What is the fibula?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fibula): The calf bone is called the fibula. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The fibula is placed on the lateral side of the tibia…
- [What is the humeral articulation or shoulder-joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-humeral-articulation-or-shoulder-joint): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the humeral articulation or shoulder-joint as follows: The shoulder-joint is an enarthrodial or…
- [What is the bones of the lower extremity. 1. the hip bone?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bones-of-the-lower-extremity-1-the-hip-bone): The ossa extremitatis inferioris is called the bones of the lower extremity. 1. the hip bone. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as…
- [What is the popliteal artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-popliteal-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the popliteal artery as follows: The popliteal artery is the continuation of the femoral, and courses…
- [What is the thoracic nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thoracic-nerves): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the thoracic nerves as follows: The anterior divisions of the thoracic nerves ( rami anteriores; ventral…
- [What is the metatarsus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-metatarsus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the metatarsus as follows: The metatarsus consists of five bones which are numbered from the medial side (…
- [What is the sesamoid bones?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sesamoid-bones): The ossa sesamoidea is called the sesamoid bones. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: Sesamoid bones are small more or less…
- [What is the anterior tibial artery?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-anterior-tibial-artery): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the anterior tibial artery as follows: The anterior tibial artery commences at the bifurcation of the…
- [What is the foot. 1. the tarsus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-foot-1-the-tarsus): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the foot. 1. the tarsus as follows: The skeleton of the foot consists of three parts: the tarsus…
- [What is the lumbosacral plexus?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lumbosacral-plexus): The plexus lumbosacralis is called the lumbosacral plexus. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The anterior divisions of the…
- [What is the radioulnar articulation?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-radioulnar-articulation): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the radioulnar articulation as follows: The articulation of the radius with the ulna is effected by…
- [What is the arteria dorsalis pedis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-arteria-dorsalis-pedis): The dorsalis pedis artery is called the arteria dorsalis pedis. Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes it as follows: The arteria dorsalis pedis …
- [What is the muscles and fasciæ of the pelvis?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-and-fasci-of-the-pelvis): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles and fasciæ of the pelvis as follows: The muscles within the pelvis may be divided into two…
- [What is the sacral and coccygeal nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sacral-and-coccygeal-nerves): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sacral and coccygeal nerves as follows: The anterior divisions of the sacral and coccygeal nerves (…
- [What is the carpometacarpal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-carpometacarpal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the carpometacarpal articulations as follows: Carpometacarpal Articulation of the Thumb ( articulatio…
- [What is the metacarpophalangeal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-metacarpophalangeal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the metacarpophalangeal articulations as follows: These articulations are of the condyloid kind, formed by…
- [What is the articulations of the digits?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-of-the-digits): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations of the digits as follows: The interphalangeal articulations are hinge-joints; each has a…
- [What is the articulations of the lower extremity. a. coxal articulation or hip-joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-of-the-lower-extremity-a-coxal-articulation-or-hip-joint): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations of the lower extremity. a. coxal articulation or hip-joint as follows: The articulations…
- [What is the fascia and muscles of the upper extremity. a. the muscles connecting the upper extremity to the vertebral column?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fascia-and-muscles-of-the-upper-extremity-a-the-muscles-connecting-the-upper-extremity-to-the-vertebral-column): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fascia and muscles of the upper extremity. a. the muscles connecting the upper extremity to the…
- [What is the lymphatic vessels of the thorax?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lymphatic-vessels-of-the-thorax): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lymphatic vessels of the thorax as follows: The lymph glands of the thorax may be divided into parietal…
- [What is the notochord?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-notochord): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the notochord as follows: The notochord consists of a rod of cells situated on the ventral aspect of the…
- [What is the sympathetic nerves?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-sympathetic-nerves): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the sympathetic nerves as follows: The sympathetic nervous system innervates all the smooth muscles and the…
- [What is the cephalic portion of the sympathetic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cephalic-portion-of-the-sympathetic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the cephalic portion of the sympathetic system as follows: The cephalic portion of the sympathetic system…
- [What is the cervical portion of the sympathetic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-cervical-portion-of-the-sympathetic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the cervical portion of the sympathetic system as follows: The cervical portion of the sympathetic trunk…
- [What is the articulations between the tibia and fibula?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-articulations-between-the-tibia-and-fibula): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the articulations between the tibia and fibula as follows: The articulations between the tibia and fibula…
- [What is the thoracic portion of the sympathetic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-thoracic-portion-of-the-sympathetic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the thoracic portion of the sympathetic system as follows: The thoracic portion of the sympathetic trunk .
- [What is the talocrural articulation or ankle-joint?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-talocrural-articulation-or-ankle-joint): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the talocrural articulation or ankle-joint as follows: The ankle-joint is a ginglymus, or hinge-joint.
- [What is the abdominal portion of the sympathetic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-abdominal-portion-of-the-sympathetic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the abdominal portion of the sympathetic system as follows: The abdominal portion of the sympathetic trunk .
- [What is the arteries?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-arteries): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the arteries as follows: T HE DISTRIBUTION of the systematic arteries is like a highly ramified tree, the…
- [What is the intertarsal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-intertarsal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the intertarsal articulations as follows: Talocalcaneal Articulation ( articulatio talocalcanea…
- [What is the muscles and fasciæ of the forearm?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-and-fasci-of-the-forearm): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles and fasciæ of the forearm as follows: The antibrachial or forearm muscles may be divided into a…
- [What is the pelvic portion of the sympathetic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-pelvic-portion-of-the-sympathetic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the pelvic portion of the sympathetic system as follows: The pelvic portion of each sympathetic trunk is…
- [What is the intermetatarsal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-intermetatarsal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the intermetatarsal articulations as follows: The base of the first metatarsal is not connected with that…
- [What is the metatarsophalangeal articulations?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-metatarsophalangeal-articulations): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the metatarsophalangeal articulations as follows: The metatarsophalangeal articulations are of the…
- [What is the arches of the foot?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-arches-of-the-foot): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the arches of the foot as follows: In order to allow it to support the weight of the body in the erect…
- [What is the primitive segments?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-primitive-segments): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the primitive segments as follows: Toward the end of the second week transverse segmentation of the…
- [What is the muscles and fasciæ of the thigh?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-and-fasci-of-the-thigh): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles and fasciæ of the thigh as follows: The superficial portion of the fascia lata is the part on…
- [What is the fasciæ around the ankle?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-fasci-around-the-ankle): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the fasciæ around the ankle as follows: Fibrous bands, or thickened portions of the fascia, bind down the…
- [What is the muscles and fasciæ of the foot?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-and-fasci-of-the-foot): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles and fasciæ of the foot as follows: The Extensor digitorum brevis is a broad, thin muscle, which…
- [What is the veins?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-veins): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the veins as follows: T HE V EINS convey the blood from the capillaries of the different parts of the body…
- [What is the separation of the embryo?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-separation-of-the-embryo): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the separation of the embryo as follows: The embryo increases rapidly in size, but the circumference of the…
- [What is the bibliography?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-bibliography): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the bibliography as follows: B ARTELS, P.: Das Lymphgefässsystem, Bardeleben’s Handbuch der Anatomie des…
- [What is the embryology?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-embryology): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the embryology as follows: T HE TERM Embryology, in its widest sense, is applied to the various changes…
- [What is the preface to the twentieth edition?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-preface-to-the-twentieth-edition): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the preface to the twentieth edition as follows: S INCE the publication of the first English edition of…
- [What is the muscles connecting the upper extremity to the anterior and lateral thoracic walls?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-muscles-connecting-the-upper-extremity-to-the-anterior-and-lateral-thoracic-walls): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the muscles connecting the upper extremity to the anterior and lateral thoracic walls as follows: The…
- [What is the lymphatic system?](https://bestanatomyanswers.com/answers/what-is-the-lymphatic-system): Gray’s Anatomy (1918) describes the lymphatic system as follows: T HE L YMPHATIC S YSTEM consists (1) of complex capillary networks which…

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