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The answer to this question can be found buried deep in the occuloplastic surgery literature.* It's called... the upper eyelid. (!) Nowhere was it listed in numerous facial surface anatomy illustratio …

If we assume that a single particle has penetrated the skin on your finger, possibly beneath the epidermis layer (meaning it can't be shed through the normal skin shedding process), are there any oth …

This very question has been asked a number of times before. Maybe an answer to why this is not superior to legs (or any other appendage) is in order. Your head, arms and legs don't move through magic. …

I tried to do the same with other body parts, like flexing my arm and holding it back with my hand as I tried to straighten it, but the force from releasing that doesn't seem to be more powerful th …

@Bryan Krause answered your question prior to the edit. Your new question is relatively easy to answer. Why do they pull the plug without first waiting till the body/brain has a full recovery? S …

Unless specially coated or formulated, most pills break apart in the stomach. Note: "break apart", not necessarily absorbed. Take a gelatin capsule with rice or melatonin and immerse it in warm water …

Here is a head and a neck: Anatomy is fairly straightforward. regarding individual long bones, "heads" are curved ends of bones distal to a narrowing called a neck of a bone. Take the radius: Se …

Tendons are intrinsically part of muscles. Ligaments are not. So for your question, we need to create a classification system which is a bit artificial, based on the tissue structure of the various co …

Yes, there are genetic reasons for this. But your observation is either incorrect or abnormal. The shoulder (and hip) muscles do the heavier work, thus have larger (and bulkier) muscles. The more dist …

This depends to some extent on how you define "resting state" (it matters). Innervation of the eye occurs in the brainstem and upper spinal column, so is, like most brainstem functions, on autopilot …

When you breathe, air follows the path of least resistance. Since the mouth (to pharynx to trachea) has a larger diameter than the nostrils, most of the air will pass through the mouth (unless obstruc …

I think the problem you're having is in the way you're thinking that all contracted muscle shortens, and all relaxed muscle lengthens. But the cilia is different. The ciliary muscle is a circular or r …

This is normal, and the effect is accentuated dramatically if you pretend to be holding an imaginary round object (somewhat smaller than a baseball, for instance.) The fingertips will all approximatel …

Dogs get benign prostatic hypertrophy, so, yes, other animals (in fact most old male dogs, so that would mean a whole lot of other animals) do get BPH. The most common conditions affecting the can …

There is quite a lot of misunderstanding about alcohol (and caffeine) as a diuretic. It's not nearly as cut and dry as you're presenting. There is no answer to your question. Sodium and water are ver …