Quotes About Anatomy

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand.

Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.

So men had something in their heads that was like fingers, only a sort of fingers girls did not have. And that explained everything, said Aunt Vidala, and we will have no more questions about it.

and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper.

And if God hadn't wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn't have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs.

The demands of standing, walking, and running have literally shaped the entire human body from head to toe.

Habitually barefoot societies have lower rates of just about every major foot problem—flat feet, athlete's foot, plantar warts, plantar fasciitis, bunions, corns—many of which are practically nonexistent.

The nervous system is composed of three major parts: the sensory input portion, the central nervous system (or integrative portion), and the motor output portion.

The science of human physiology attempts to explain the specific characteristics and mechanisms of the human body that make it a living being.

Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill; others, that it is a fermenting vat; others, again that it is a stew-pan; but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan, but a stomach gentlemen, a stomach.

Noggin is a protein that forms the skull.

Have you ever seen a bird without its beak? Horrible, just tiny dead eyes and a hole in its face.

how to perform an ultrasound with one arm up a rhino's rectum.

Jean-Léopold-Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier

so Durrant stroked the area around his cloaca

Did he contain himself as he felt inside Elva's vagina, smooth like a cul-de-sac, with no discernible cervix, no peekaboo womb or errant fallopian tubes? Did he express surprise or consternation upon uncovering what lay before him, an extra . . . what? No, not an unusually large, blushing labia, but a real-life miniature penis, one that could become aroused with certain thoughts or feelings, but which at that moment remained flaccid between his cold, clinical fingers.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

Tenemos setecientos músculos, trescientas articulaciones, dieciséis mil kilómetros de corriente nerviosa fluyendo por un mismo organismo y cerca de noventa y seis mil kilómetros de venas, arterias y capilares portadores de sangre. La

People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.

Other primate penises are pencil-thin, whereas the erect human penis averages over one inch in diameter. Also, most other primates have a penis bone called the baculum, and achieve erections mostly through muscular control, like a winch raising a rigid strut. The penis bone is typical of most mammals. By contrast, the male human relies on an unusual system of vasocongestion. The penis fills with blood before copulation, like a blimp inflating before flight.

Among primates, the intensity of sperm competition correlates much more strongly with testicle size than with penis size.

Human penises evolved as tactile stimulators for use in copulatory courtship.

The large male penis is a product of female choice in evolution. If it were not, males would never have bothered to evolve such a large, floppy, blood-hungry organ. Ancestral females made males evolve such penises because they liked them.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?