Body parts that start with S

Saliva is the fluid made by glands around your mouth. It helps you to chew and swallow food.

Your scalp is the skin on top of your head, where you normally grow hair. When men go bald you can easily see their scalp. The man in the photo has his scalp showing through a scar.

Shank is another word for shin, the lower part of your leg between your knee and your ankle.

Your shins are at the front, bottom part of your leg between your knee and your foot. There is not much fat or muscle on your shins, so it hurts to get hit there and shins are usually very easy to bruise.

Your skeleton is made up of a number of bones, which hold you up. Your bones are connected to each other by joints, such as your knee and elbow, which let you move around. The skeleton in the picture is a cat skeleton.

Skulls are a bony structure that is found inside your head, and in the head of almost all animals. The top part of the skull is called the cranium and the bottom part is called the mandible. Your mandible is more commonly called your jaw, and is the part that moves up and down as you chew or open and close your mouth.
The picture is of the top part of a sheep's skull.

A snout is the front part of an animal's face, where its nose and mouth are. The term snout is usually given to the snout of a pig.

Your spine, or vertebral column is the row of bones that runs along the centre of your back. Your spine is made of lots of small bones called vertebra.

Your stomach is an organ where your food first goes when you eat. The general area of your body where your stomach is can also be called your stomach, belly or tummy.

Stubble is the short stalks left when a crop like wheat has been harvested. Stubble is also used to describe other things that look like grain stubble, like the short hair on a man's chin that you can see a little while after he has shaved.