Medically reviewed by Monique Rainford, MD Key Takeaways The vagina is a muscular tube connecting the outside of the body to ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD Key Takeaways The pleura is a thin membrane that covers and cushions the ...

This article discusses the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for involuntary reactions such as heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with ...

"Bones can break, muscles can atrophy, glands can loaf, even the brain can go to sleep without immediate danger to survival. But should the kidneys fail...neither bone, muscle, gland nor brain could ...

The colon is part of the digestive system. It helps the body absorb water and nutrients from food before excreting the waste. It is made up of muscle and located just below the stomach. People ...

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

Researchers have taken first steps toward functional connectomics. By combining large-scale serial electron microscopy and functional imaging data, the structure of neural networks can be related to ...

What's the Digestive System? Your digestive system is a group of connected organs that work together to turn the food you eat into nutrients your body needs to function. It includes your biliary ...

My previous post, "Sexing the Brain (Early Days)" considered the early approach to consider sex differences in terms of perceptual asymmetries. That post ended on McGlone’s (1980) conclusion that men ...