Category: Human Body

Femur Location: The femur bone is the toughest and longest bone in the body, employing the location of the lower limb, between the hip and knee joints. The femur …

QHS Medical Abbreviation: You just had an appointment with your doctor and she wrote you a prescription. On the way to the pharmacy, you look at it and speculate …

The digastric muscle (also digastricus) (named digastric as it has two ‘bellies’) is a small muscle located under the jaw. The term “digastric muscle” refers to this specific muscle. However, other muscles that have two separate muscle …

Oral Fixation – Definition, Explanation & More Oral Fixation is a fixation in the oral stage of development and manifested by an obsession with stimulating the mouth, first described …

The external oblique muscle is one of the largest parts of the trunk area. Each side of the body has an external oblique muscle. The external oblique muscle is one …

Somatosensory Cortex is responsible for processing somatic sensations. These sensations arise from receptors positioned throughout the body that are responsible for detecting touch, proprioception (the position of the body …