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  2. List of organs of the human body - Wikipedia

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    e. This article contains a list of organs in the human body. It is widely believed that there are 79 organs (this number goes up if you count each bone and muscle as an organ on their own, which is becoming a more common practice [1] [2] ); however, there is no universal standard definition of what constitutes an organ, and some tissue groups ...

  3. Human body - Wikipedia

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    The human body is the entire structure of a human being. It is composed of many different types of cells that together create tissues and subsequently organs and then organ systems. The external human body consists of a head, hair, neck, torso (which includes the thorax and abdomen ), genitals, arms, hands, legs, and feet.

  4. Organ (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Organ (biology) In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function. [1] In the hierarchy of life, an organ lies between tissue and an organ system. Tissues are formed from same type cells to act together in a function. Tissues of different types combine to form an organ which ...

  5. Organ system - Wikipedia

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    The 11 organ systems: the respiratory system, digestive and excretory system, circulatory system, urinary system, integumentary system, skeletal system, muscular system, endocrine system, lymphatic system, nervous system, and reproductive system. There are other systems in the body that are not organ systems—for example, the immune system ...

  6. List of systems of the human body - Wikipedia

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    cardiovascular system. endocrine system. (missing exocrine system) muscular system. Clockwise from top left: lymphatic system. respiratory system. urinary system. female reproductive system. male reproductive system.

  7. Anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy (from Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ) ' dissection ') is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. [1] Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its beginnings in prehistoric ...

  8. Body without organs - Wikipedia

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    The body without organs (or BwO; French: corps sans organes or CsO) [1] is a fuzzy concept used in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The concept describes the unregulated potential of a body— not necessarily human [2] — without organizational structures imposed on its constituent parts, operating freely.

  9. Heart - Wikipedia

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    3932. Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. [1] The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs. [2]

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