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Quotes About Anatomy

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
~ Anonymous
Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp.
~ Anonymous
If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?
~ Anonymous
There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body, children! Almost enough to wind around the earth two and a half times . . .
~ Anthony Doerr
Owls have three eyelids. Their eyeballs are not spheres but elongated tubes. A group of owls is called a parliament.
~ Anthony Doerr
An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner's temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. They measure his penis. The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor.
~ Anthony Doerr
I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it.
~ Kylie Bax
Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.
~ Goldie Hawn
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
~ Jim Yong Kim
Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads
~ Frank Herbert
For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?
~ Frank McCourt
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
~ Frida Kahlo
La oposición de izquierda... creyó necesario reconstruir la anatomía nacional, volver al nacionalismo revolucionario original (cardenista e incluso zapatista) y desarrolló una actitud populista de desconfianza ante la democracia electoral.
~ Roger Bartra
The Right to an Answer is a further anatomy of the Britain Burgess personally found waiting for him on his return from the East.
~ Roger Lewis
Why is my skull covered with hair? To make it look like my genitals?
~ Roland Topor
None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.
~ Lucy Grealy
Es ist ein seltsamer Zufall, dass alle die Menschen, deren Schädel man geöffnet hat, ein Gehirn hatten.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Curvy people float better than lean beans, and women more than men, because even at our slimmest, we have an extra layer of fat distributed throughout our bodies.
~ Lynn Sherr
scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The thing to remember is that the skull is fixed in position, and, with the exception of the jaw, immovable, and that the flesh is mobile and ever-changing, and also affected by health, emotion, and age. After the skull is fully matured, it remains the same through life and is a structural foundation for the varying appearance of the flesh.
~ Andrew Loomis
the fibrous tongue is actually the strongest muscle per inch in the body; if it were the size of a biceps, you could pick up a car with it.
~ Andrew Solomon
APERITIVE  (APE'RITIVE)   adj.[from aperio, Lat. to open.]That which has the quality of opening the excrementious passages of the body.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALMONDS  (A'LMONDS)  OF THE THROAT, or TONSILS, called
~ Samuel Johnson
Impressive vocabulary, Korbyn said. I feel as though I should take notes. I think she's making them up, Liyana said. Half of them are not anatomically possible.
~ Sarah Beth Durst