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Body Part Words Quiz

Can you guess the words for these anatomical parts?
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First submittedSeptember 14, 2010
Times taken134,426
Average score65.0%
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Description
Body Part
Back of the neck
Nape
Belly button
Navel
Front teeth
Incisors
Thigh bone
Femur
Largest artery in the body
Aorta
Back of the eyeball that senses light
Retina
That weird thing that hangs down
above your throat
Uvula
Blood storage organ
Spleen
Tube that brings food to the stomach
Esophagus
Seemingly useless organ near
the intestines
Appendix
Description
Body Part
Lower jaw bone
Mandible
Bone at the center of the chest
Sternum
Collarbone
Clavicle
Kneecap
Patella
Another word for the backbone
Spine
The individuals bones which
make up the above
Vertebrae
Bile storage organ
Gallbladder
Organ that produces insulin
Pancreas
Tailbone
Coccyx
Bottom of the foot
Sole
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66 Comments
Quizmaster
+11
Level ∞
Dec 23, 2012
In case you're wondering, esophagus is the American spelling of oesophagus.
Algernon
+42
Level 73
Oct 6, 2017
"American spelling" is an oxymoron if ever there was one.
OfficerDibble
+51
Level 82
Nov 9, 2017
Is that some "British diplomacy"?
roleybob
+12
Level 75
Mar 7, 2018
A lot of US spellings make far more sense than English ones - I don't know why we decided it would be a good idea to need both an O and a U in through.

Or a G.

Or an H.

JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Jul 12, 2023
You might as well write everything in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Sifhraven
+5
Level 72
Dec 20, 2018
@roleybob because they both come from the greek word, and both chose to write certain sounds in a different way. and em without the g or H you d get oesopaus so I really dont get that remark. And the o and u stand in completely different places and for different sounds so I dont get that either. oespaus? oesopas? You would get totally unrecognisable things.

Btw -phagus means eating, just an interesting fact for the people taht didnt know it. (and yes the -phagus in sarcophagus also stands for eating...)

roleybob
+3
Level 75
Mar 26, 2019
The word I was using as an example of having redundant letters is 'through', not 'oesophagus'
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
May 11, 2019
Ah thats through, i mean true, or tru...

(I had read too fast and thought it said "... to need both an o and a u in it though")

and huh isnt through the same in us as in uk spelling?

The water went right through the trough though, tough I thought. (it had a hole) :D English is weird whether (weather) it is american or british.

(Just made that sentence up, I like it haha) (troo, truf,do, tof tot or something ;) )

Sifhraven
+2
Level 72
May 11, 2019
I missed thorough, guess i wasnt thorough (torro/turro) haha
roleybob
+1
Level 75
May 24, 2019
I thought that they spell it 'thru' but maybe I'm wrong.

Regardless, there are plenty of words which I think Americans spell much more sensibly than us lot on this side of the water.

Although I do despise some bastardisations such as using EZ to mean easy. That's a bit different though as it's more like an abbreviation than a difference in spelling. It doesn't help that it doesn't make immediately obvious sense to an English person - 'ee-zed..? WTF is that supposed to mean...' - but I dislike the whole fashion of missing out vowels, using numbers in place of letters, etc. - XTC instead of ecstasy, 4tune instead of fortune, etc

bostjan
+1
Level 72
Sep 9, 2020
Neither really makes sense. The original Greek would be equivalent to oisophagus, which contains no "e" at all.
AlmostAGenius
+3
Level 82
May 3, 2022
I think it should be spelled “usofugus”.
PersOfUniv9
+2
Level 35
Jul 13, 2023
why would you say this? i’m american and i can spell most words.
fuanacdc
+1
Level 86
Jul 15, 2023
Just bigotry at it's finest.
EcceHomo
+2
Level 82
Jul 15, 2020
Eight years later, although for me, right now, it's now.

Œ is a Latin alphabet grapheme probably from the middle ages, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used to represent the Greek diphthong οι.

So, there are no 'redundant' letters in Oesophagus; we just can't spell it these days, either side of the Atlantic. It should be œsophagus, as œ is a single letter.

EcceHomo
+1
Level 82
Mar 16, 2021
Further comments on this quiz.

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/british-spellings-quiz

nettybet
+7
Level 76
Feb 27, 2013
Good quiz (and entertaining comments :) )
soda15
+1
Level 17
Mar 30, 2013
i like this quiz :3
Skymatone
+4
Level 59
Apr 24, 2013
Why doesn't it accept Incisor? I would have gotten 100%
Sifhraven
+4
Level 72
May 11, 2019
It says teeth not tooth, i actually found it annoying that incisor was accepted while they asked for the plural. It messes up the next answer. Accepting part of an answer when the ending is very difficult i sort of get, but singular when plural is asked... when the answer isnt accepted you should be smart enough to see what the problem is right?
bpomeroy1
+5
Level 25
Jun 30, 2013
you should accept multiple spellings for nape, such as nap and knap also you should accept incisor for incisors as well.
Sifhraven
+4
Level 72
May 11, 2019
Nap and knap sounds totally different, knape..perhaps. but you wouldnt ask nife to be accepted for knife would you?
MattyG270
+1
Level 14
Aug 25, 2013
Good Quiz, Missed Mandible
Bob12
+1
Level 36
Sep 3, 2013
Good quiz. Got 16 / 20 though. Oh well.
beekash
+11
Level 57
Oct 25, 2013
The spleen stores red blood cells, which is not the same as just blood.
burntfrost
+4
Level 48
May 11, 2014
Yeah, that confused me.
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
Sep 18, 2016
Only missed spleen.
KiwiTyke
+12
Level 62
Mar 6, 2018
Totally agree with this. Blood isn't really stored anywhere. It flows. If it starts being stored somewhere, there's a problem.
sux2suck
+1
Level 59
Jan 20, 2022
Yeah I just started naming organs and eventually got spleen.
emwcee
+1
Level 46
Nov 20, 2013
Fun quiz
Geoguy
+2
Level 68
May 18, 2014
For the Anatomy Whizzes out there - I'm making a 'The Human Body by Letter' series!
smartcookie17
+4
Level 45
May 27, 2014
Uvula is Latin or something for 'little grape', and the clavicle is the wishbone in chickens.

Pretty interesting stuff, huh?

Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Dec 22, 2014
Look up 'Sense of humour' in one of your dictionaries.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
May 11, 2019
....
MagentaDog790
+1
Level 38
May 16, 2015
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MagentaDog790
+2
Level 38
May 16, 2015
Get it-HANDY!!! hahahahahahaha... having a tween moment here!
Caroline14
+2
Level 34
Feb 27, 2015
I put coccus (the round shaped bacterial cell) instead of coccyx
ander217
+2
Level 74
Mar 7, 2018
I broke mine once, and I'll never forget the spelling (or the pain.)
wetblanket1
+2
Level 72
Sep 29, 2015
Consider "Aortic"...for largest artery
WanderingWalrus
+1
Level 79
May 21, 2016
Thing that hangs down above your throat - tonsil?
brandybuck96
+1
Level 83
Jul 14, 2016
Don't they stick up?
mikeb
+9
Level 65
Mar 6, 2018
No, those are stalactites. The stalagmites hang down.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Jul 12, 2023
No, stalagmites stick up; stalactites hang down.
roleybob
+2
Level 75
Aug 20, 2019
^ nope - tonsil joke aside, stalaCtites hang from the ceiling, stalaGmites stick up from the ground
xcookiexpandax
+3
Level 18
Feb 25, 2018
all of them right, I want to be a biologist :)
PacoGee
+2
Level 44
Mar 6, 2018
Coccyx is hard to spell when there is three seconds left.. FFS I had it right almost..
CardinalV
+2
Level 62
Mar 6, 2018
Words like "plantar" and "aortic" should NOT be included because they are not the body parts, they are adjectives describing the body parts.
Jumpman18
+2
Level 17
Mar 13, 2018
It bothers me that you mix medical terms with slang. I kept trying "calcaneus" for "bottom of foot", and it was wrong.
BlackLab
+2
Level 66
Apr 1, 2019
Planters Peanuts.
DannyWozza
+2
Level 94
May 25, 2018
That's a new thing I've learned today - always thought the dangly bit was actually the tonsils, never heard of uvula before. Thanks for the knowledge :)
Lucknowite
+1
Level 41
Sep 2, 2018
Accept vermiform appendix please.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
Dec 20, 2018
could galbladder be accepted?
TrivialGod
+3
Level 40
Oct 11, 2019
“Weird thing” for uvula I’m dying
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Nov 8, 2019
Wow, got 14 but managed to miss 'spine' for backbone.
Fuse
+1
Level 79
Nov 24, 2020
I kept trying breastbone for sternum... until I eventually got it.
MalyJacus
+2
Level 58
Jun 17, 2022
Took anatomy almost 20 years ago and it's still all there in my noggin (technical term for skull :)

Couple of quibbles: belly button is "umbilicus" not navel. I see umbilicus is accepted, but that should be the term listed first, not the alternative.

Spleen does not "store" blood, not in the same way gallbladder stores bile. Spleen acts to "filter" out blood, basically gets rid of red cells that are too old and not compressible enough to pass through its capillary system. Plus it does antigen presentation, sequesters some infectious agents, lots of other tasks. It's not easy being spleen.

To be more accurate, I would also rephrase "organ that produces insulin" to "Organ wherein most insulin is produced". There are insulin producing cells outside of the pancreas and technically again neogenesis of the exocrine and endocrine pancreas is quite distinct and it is only by accident that in most mammals islets are within pancreas (not so in other species).

RobNobody
+2
Level 78
Jul 12, 2023
But... the belly button is the navel. I mean, it's also the umbilicus, but "navel" is by far the more common English word for it outside of clinical settings. You might as well say "It's pollex, not thumb."
vacationmom
+1
Level 66
Aug 11, 2022
I kept typing "macula" instead of "retina" and I'm wondering if it would fit the same criteria?
mal
+2
Level 63
Jul 12, 2023
Managed to get them all. A little wiggle room on the spelling of coccyx would be useful please. Really struggled with how many c's, y's and x's there were ;-)
mikeyheath92
+1
Level 49
Jul 13, 2023
Learn how to spell it and maybe you won't have to struggle with it, maybe?
oranje
+2
Level 65
Jul 12, 2023
uff i kept spelling nape as knape.
3NRD
+1
Level 40
Jul 13, 2023
Does anyone else prefer "nife". And "befor".
Evan1111111
+1
Level 50
Aug 19, 2023
Accept aortic? Or am I wrong
Nickelz
+1
Level 67
Sep 15, 2023
that's not what it's called...
Spoodermann
+1
Level 19
Mar 4, 2024
Was unaware that it was the gallbladder that produced bile. I always thought it was the stomach.
nicolef
+1
Level 69
Mar 17, 2024
Tried xyphoid process about three times before I realised what they were aiming for...
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