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abdomen air-cells animals Aorta Atlas blood blood-vessels body bones bony brain breathing burning called canal capillaries carbonic acid carried cartilage cavity cerebrum chamber Circulation Clavicle cloth boards coat cochlea colour consists contains contract corpuscles Crystalline Lens delicate Describe Diaphragm digestion drum eyeball fibres fibrin fingers flesh-forming fluid front give glands gristle Gullet hand heart hollow Humerus impure inch inner intestines joints Juice kind Lacteals layer ligaments limb lower lungs matter membrane motor nerves movements muscles muscular nasal Nitrogen organs outer oxygen pair papillæ pass passages phalanges pipes proteid Pulmonary Artery Pulmonary Veins rays Respiration ribs Right Auricle round Saliva Scapula sensation sense sensory nerves side skin skull smell Spinal Cord starch stomach substance surface taste teeth tendons thick Thoracic Duct Thorax tiny tissues tongue trunk tubes upper Valve Ventricle vertebræ vertebral column walls Windpipe
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