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Medical conditions and body parts. But nothing good enough to self-diagnose with, just the basics!

Subcategories: Body parts (199), Phobias (6), Senses (5), Substances (22)

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H is for Hand (Body)

Your hand is on the end of your arm. You use your hands to hold things. Your hands have four fingers and a thumb.

H is for Hangover

If you have too many alcholic drinks, the next day you will probably get a hangover. People with a hangover have a headache and may feel nauseous.

H is for Head

The head is the topmost part of your body. On the front of your head is your face, and on the top and back of your head you grow hair. All animals, insects, birds and fish have heads, except for some tiny organisms that are so small we cannot see them. Your head is joined to your body by your neck. The photo is a mannequin's head.

H is for Headache

A headache is when your head hurts. You can get a headache because you are sick, stressed or many other reasons.

H is for Heal

You heal when you have an injury or disease and it gets better.
The man in the picture has hurt his fingernail some time ago and now it is healing.

H is for Health

Your health is your general condition and well-being. If you are sick, you are in poor health. If you are feeling good, you are healthy.
The plants in the picture are very healthy.

H is for Hearing

You use your ears to hear with. Hearing is a very important sense but it is possible to live very well when you cannot hear. Someone who cannot hear is deaf. Some people who are deaf never learn to talk so they communicate with sign language.

H is for Heel

Your heel is the back, bottom part of your foot. Most of your weight is supported by your heels. The woman in the photo is wearing high-heeled shoes. The bottom, back part of a shoe is also called the heel.

H is for Hemlock

Hemlock is also known as Devil's porridge, beaver Poison, musquash root, cowbane or poison parsley. Hemlock is a very poisonous plant that has been used for centuries for assassinations and executions. It is extremely toxic to humans and animals, and eating any amount can cause death. It is most toxic when it is fresh.

H is for Hind

The hind parts of something are at the back or rear. In animals, you might describe them as having hind legs or hindquarters.

H is for Hip

Your hip is the part below your waist on the sides of your body where your leg joins your body. People's hips are typically wider than their waists, particularly on women.
The woman in the picture has one hand on her hip.

H is for Hock

An animal's hock is the equivalent joint to our ankle. It is found half-way up their hind legs.

H is for Hoof

While people have toes on the end of their feet and cats and dogs have paws with claws, animals like cows and horses have hooves.
A hoof is just the tip of the animal's toe, encased in a hard substance made out of the same stuff as our fingernails are made from. Hooves continue to grow just like our fingernails, and are worn down by the animal walking around. If the animal like a horse walks around on very hard ground like a road their hoof will wear down too fast, so people make them special shoes to protect their hooves.
The hoof in the picture is a cow's hoof. Cows have cloven feet, meaning the hoof is divided into two sections.

H is for Horns

Horns grow in pairs on the heads of animals like sheep, goats and some cows. Horns start growing when the animal is very young and continue to grow for their entire life, often getting to be very large. Horns often grow in a twisting or spiral shape. In some animals only the male grows horns.

H is for Hospital

A hospital is a big place where sick and injured people are taken to get better. Babies are also born in hospitals. Doctors and nurses work together to make people better in hospitals.

H is for Humerus

The humerus is the large bone in your upper arm. It goes from your elbow to your shoulder. Muscles such as your biceps and triceps connect to your humerus.

H is for Hump

A hump is a large lump on the back of an animal or a person. On people, a hump is usually caused by your spine curving from old age. With animals like the camel in the picture, the hump is mostly fat, and it stores food.

H is for Hygiene

Hygiene means keeping yourself and the place you live and work clean so you stay healthy.
Basic personal hygiene would include having a shower and brushing your teeth every day, and making sure that your clothes and bed linen is clean too.

I is for Ill

Ill is another word for sick, as in "I feel ill today". It may also be used before another word to make a negative phrase out of that word, for example "the child was very ill mannered" , or "she received nothing but ill will".

I is for Incisor

Your incisors are the teeth in the front of your mouth that you use for biting food.

Incisors have a sharp edge on top and are used to break off smaller bits of larger food items so you can fit them in your mouth to chew them.