the human body

The Human BrainTo control your body and house your mind... The Voice BoxTo create sounds and prevent food from entering your airways... The heart is a muscular organ, responsible for pu

The Human Body

Human body parts

Human Organs

The Human Brain

To control your body and house your mind.

The Voice Box

To create sounds and prevent food from entering your

airways.

To deliver oxygen to and remove carbon dioxide from your blood.

The heart is a muscular organ, responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions.

To get rid of toxins, to

regulate your blood sugar levels and to produce bile.

Cleaning your blood, destroying old red blood cells and fighting infection.

Storing food, breaking food down and mixing it with juices secreted by your stomach lining.

To make urine from waste products and excess water found in your blood.

To store and concentrate bile produced in your liver

Bile is a greenish-yellow, slightly acidic fluid that is made in your liver You produce about one litre of it a day

Secreting digestive enzymes and hormones that control blood sugar levels When you eat, your pancreas releases digestive juices This fluid is rich in enzymes that break down fats, proteins and carbohydrates

Large Intestine

To convert food waste products into faeces.

Small Intestine

A five metre long narrow tube that hangs in sausage-like coils

Chemical digestion of food and absorption of nutrients into your blood

Flat, pliable and tough, between 0.5 and 4mm thick

To protect your body from damage, infection and

drying out

A narrow, muscular, worm-like pouch, usually around nine centimetres long.

Its function is unknown.

Urine, made in your kidneys, is

transported to your bladder via two narrow tubes As your bladder fills up with urine it stretches It can hold about 1 pint of fluid

Human Organs

The Human Skeleton

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