The Anthromica Library
The human body one structure at a time. Every page has a 3D model you can turn, with its parts numbered on it, where it sits, what it does and what supplies it.
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- Lingual nerveNervus lingualisA branch of the mandibular nerve that curves down into the floor of the mouth, carrying touch and taste from the front of the tongue.
- Lingual veinVena lingualisThe vein draining the tongue, formed below and behind it and ending in the internal jugular vein in the neck.
- Lingula of cerebellumLingula cerebelliThe small, tongue-shaped front lobule of the superior vermis, lying on the superior medullary velum above the fourth ventricle.
- Long posterior ciliary arteriesArteriae ciliares posteriores longaeTwo small branches of the ophthalmic artery that run forwards inside the eyeball wall to supply the iris and ciliary body.
- Lunate sulcusA crescent-shaped groove on the lateral occipital lobe, variably present in humans, that in apes marks the front border of the primary visual cortex.
- Major alar cartilageCartilago alaris majorA thin, folded plate of hyaline cartilage in the tip of the nose, one per side, shaping the nostril and holding it open.
- Mamillary bodyCorpus mammillareOne of a pair of small round swellings on the underside of the hypothalamus, a relay of the memory circuit between hippocampus and thalamus.
- MandibleMandibulaThe mandible is the movable lower jaw bone of the skull, carrying the lower teeth and hinging on the temporal bones at each side.
- Mandibular nodeNodus mandibularisA small facial lymph node on the outer surface of the mandible, beside the facial artery and vein where they cross the jaw.
- Mastoid nodesNodi mastoideiA small pair of lymph nodes behind the ear, lying on the mastoid process at the upper attachment of sternocleidomastoid.
- MaxillaOne of the paired bones of the upper jaw, holding the upper teeth and forming the centre of the face, the orbit floor and much of the palate.
- Maxillary arteryArteria maxillarisThe larger terminal branch of the external carotid artery, running deep to the mandible to supply the jaws, teeth, nose and palate.
- Maxillary nerveNervus maxillarisThe middle division of the trigeminal nerve, a sensory nerve for the upper jaw, upper teeth, nose, palate and skin of the mid-face.
- Maxillary veinsVenae maxillaresA short venous trunk behind the neck of the mandible that carries blood from the pterygoid plexus to the retromandibular vein.
- Medial geniculate bodyCorpus geniculatum medialeA small swelling on the underside of the back of the thalamus that relays hearing from the inferior colliculus to the auditory cortex.
- Medial occipital arteryArteria occipitalis medialisOne of the two end branches of the posterior cerebral artery, supplying the inner face of the occipital lobe and its visual cortex.
- Medial pontine branches of basilar arteryRami mediales pontis arteriae basilarisSmall paramedian branches from the back of the basilar artery that pierce the pons near the midline to supply its inner part.
- Medial pterygoid muscleMusculus pterygoideus medialisThe medial pterygoid is a thick, four-sided chewing muscle on the inner side of the mandibular ramus that closes the jaw.
- Medial rectus muscleMusculus rectus medialisThe medial rectus is the straight eye muscle on the nasal side of the eyeball that turns the eye inwards towards the nose.
- Medulla oblongataThe lowest part of the brainstem, a tapering column between the pons and the spinal cord that holds vital centres for breathing and circulation.
- Meningeal branch of maxillary nerveRamus meningeus nervi maxillarisA small branch of the maxillary nerve, given off inside the skull, that supplies the dura mater of the front of the middle cranial fossa.
- Mental branch of inferior alveolar arteryRamus mentalis arteriae alveolaris inferiorisThe terminal branch of the inferior alveolar artery, leaving the mandible through the mental foramen to supply the chin and lower lip.
- Mental nerveNervus mentalisA sensory branch of the inferior alveolar nerve that leaves the jaw through the mental foramen to supply the chin and lower lip.
- Mentalis muscleMusculus mentalisThe mentalis is a small, cone-shaped muscle at the point of the chin that raises and pushes out the lower lip, as in pouting.