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Influenza is an infectious
disease that
birds and
animals can get. The flu generally gives you a
fever, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, a cough, and generally makes you feel very bad.
When you give someone an
injection you use a
syringe to put some
liquid into them through a small
needle.
The person in the picture is being
vaccinated.
If you have insomnia, you have trouble
sleeping, which means you are
tired during the day. Someone who has insomnia is called an insomniac. Insomniacs might have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both.
Many medications have insomnia as a side effect.
Intestines are part of your digestive tract. They are basically a long
tube that runs from your
stomach to your
anus. The picture is of some
pig intestines for sale at a market.
The iris is the colored part of your
eye. The iris is a
muscle that opens and closes the
pupil in the center of your eye, controlling how much light reaches the inside of your eye.
An itch is an annoying, twingey feeling in your
skin that you just have to
scratch. Some itches are from touching something like
poison ivy, some are from
mosquito bites, and others just happen for no reason.
Jaundice is a
yellowing of the
skin and the whites of your
eyes, caused by an excess of bilirubin. Newborn babies often get slightly jaundiced. It is also a symptom of
liver damage.
Your jaw is the bottom part of your
face. Your jaw has a separate bone and can
move while you keep the rest of your head still. The bones in the picture are a
sheep's jawbone and
skull.
Jowls are the parts of your face around your
jaw and
neck, particularly when they are large and fatty.
Your knee is the joint halfway up your
leg, so you can bend your leg to
walk. When you
crawl, you move around on your knees. If you stand on your knees it is called
kneeling.
Your knuckles are the joints on your
hand that allow your fingers to bend around. Knuckles are quite hard and bony and stick out when you make a
fist. When people get into
fights they often hurt their knuckles.
Your lap is a place that only exists when you sit down. It is the place on the top of your
thighs when you have your
knees lifted up. The boy in the photo has a
cat on his lap.
A lap is also a full circuit of something - for example, you may run a
lap around the school oval.
Larynx is the technical word for the voice box in your throat. It is part of the air way, and it helps you make sounds when you talk or sing.
The larynx has vocal cords that vibrate when you breathe out. It also helps protect your windpipe by closing when you swallow. The larynx is found in the front of the neck, between the mouth and the trachea. In some people, it makes a visible bump called the
Adam's apple.
You have
two legs, one on each side. You use them to stand on, and to
run and
jump. Your
feet are at the ends of each of your legs.
The
lens is a small clear part inside your eye. It helps your eye
focus on things you are looking at.
The lens changes shape to focus light onto the
retina, which sends signals to your brain.
Limbs are your
arms and
legs. A bird's
wings are called limbs, and large
branches on a tree are also called limbs.
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Your lips are the pink or red areas around your
mouth. You use your lips to
talk and to
kiss.