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9 Body Parts You Didn't Know Had Names

canongate.net — A list of 9 obscure words used to identify parts of the body.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 2, 2007

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  • drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -5/+70HEADON, Apply directly to the forehead!
    HEADON, Apply directly to the forehead!
    HEADON, Apply directly to the forehead!
  • dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33I dunno man... mine likes to be called Ted...

    and the other one is Bill.
  • MikeMcG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23You call it the back of your knee?
  • Iffrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Poplite

    In human anatomy, the poplite is the name for the recessed area on the back of the leg, behind the knee.
  • rodon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The technical term is "perineum"
  • BarryChuckle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Reminds me of a very annoying commercial.
  • dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11What about the taint?
  • Jo9100, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@lffrat

    > This anatomy article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. :)
  • ashwinmudigonda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6While we are it, the rumbling noise made by the stomach is called Borborygmus. I love that word.
  • Soman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The popliteal fossa
  • mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yea, but wtf do you call the back of your knee?
  • newanon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8One of the more interesting ones is the groove in the upper lip:
    "7. PHILTRUM
    The vertical groove in the middle portion of the upper lip."
  • AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5...apply directly to the Glabella!
  • luckyink, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@ dj_sea2005

    EXCELLENT!!!


    *plays air guitar*
  • BuddhaChu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5On a woman I call it a chin rest. ;)
  • bradleycomer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the taint is the Perineum
  • Iffrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44. LUNNULE
    The white crescent-shaped mark at the base of a fingernail.

    only its lunule
  • kanundrum, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I've heard of phalanx before.. isn't that also a reference to a roman army unit or something?
  • armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx

    Tada!
  • armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Ahh, I needed to go watch that commercial again. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3icfcbmbs
  • f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3coffee table?

    I mean chode.
  • JackyTreehorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"There are two phalanges in each thumb and great toe."

    I don't think of any of my toes as great. I like to think they are all equal. How many phalanges are in a regular, proletariat toe?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mispelled. It's Frenulum Glandis
  • kfconme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.wikiality.com/Wenis
  • CodeCobalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What do you call the thing between the dick and the *****?

    The coffee table?

    ahhh I love weeds.
  • daimposter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how is he far off by saying roman? the term phalanx may be greek and there were greek phalanx before roman, but there WAS a roman phalanx too. he wasn't that far off.
  • PeakAction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should be kicked in the pudendum.
  • UglieJosh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Bumped you back up a bit for the needless burying...

    Is it not ok to be a little "clueless" when you are ASKING A QUESTION?
  • sporktek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Personally, I knew each of those parts had names. Just didn't know what they were.
  • MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perineum --- Ahh, I see that 3 other people posted at nearly the exact same time as me. . . Oh well.
  • Jo9100, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4-SEPTUM
    The "wall" between the two nostrils inside the nose
  • mad1stl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most people cannot lick their own wenis.
  • bagofbeef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I didn't know that Sniglets were still around...
  • gojcaj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What about the wenis? (no nintendo fans that isn't wii-ness). It's the skin on your elbow. Ohhh kfconme caught it right before me nice.
  • Iffrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@jo9100

    as far as i know its more general term for that area, it was used in my human anatomy class back in college where popliteal fossa was more of a specific area kinda like the processes on bones ahh never mind i dont think he really cared anyways lol
  • overaction, on 07/14/2009, -2/+4I've heard "gooch" occasionally. Not sure if it's just a local thing or not.
  • dlm85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The taint on a man is also know as the ABC, ass ball connector.
  • armbar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If he doesn't know, he can JFGI.
  • ItsDrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tramp Stamp: A Tattoo above the buttocks on a female
  • jonstafari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@f3l1x
    props on the Weeds quote.

    yeah, this list needs taint, i mean coffee table ;-)
  • g33b33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the taint is "no mans land"
  • selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just assumed everything had been named... and I was right:) Interesting stuff.
  • wyrdness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Distinguished linguists languish In language of English ease.
    In hot pot de "Chambers Revised" they gandered
    And butchered in bags of "Nuttall's Standard".
    But no flic with the "Shorter Ox. Dic. Of Eng."
    Will find an n. sing for the back of the knees.

    Poplitic, popliteal: both are adj. for the crease.
    The ham remains nameless. This is rather hard cheese
    - For stuff without title, it is said, cannot be -
    Therefore, necks we have napes, also backbone and bottom,
    But back of the knees, friends? So far - we ain't got 'em.


    By the late Vivian Stanshall (Bonzo Dog Band)
  • subindie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18. PUDENDUM

    I knew that thanks to Stephen Lynch, worth a link:
    http://www.whatarerecords.com/stephen_lynch/drstephen/index.html
  • jaredvolkl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I perfer fleshy fun bridge
  • shatters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What about "its" lunule?
  • Ghostlove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always referred to that particular area as the 'kneepit'.
  • halfnormalform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's the "underknee"!
  • scottfarner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1popliteal fossa
  • kevinharbin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why should it be included in the list? Clearly a lot of people know it has a name.
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