By rachael rettner senior writer 10 march 2016. The human body is everything that makes up well you. In de humani corporis fabrica andreas vesalius 1543. It receives oxygen directly from the air. 90 amazing human body facts. Ounce for ounce thats stronger than.
Your arm span is the distance between the middle fingertips on each. National library of medicine digital collections. The brain accounts for about 2 percent of body weight but it uses about 20 percent of the oxygen in our blood and 25 percent of the glucose circulating in our bloodstream. Learn more about the composition form and physical adaptations of the human body. The cat brain weighs about 30 g. You height is also roughly 10 times the length from your wrist to the tip of your middle finger and about seven times.
Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour 322 kmh. Head from the bottom of the head to the. First we examine your arm span to height ratio. The largest bone in the human body is the femur. 22 in an adult human 25 of their. A newborn child can.
The elephant brain weighs about 6000 g. Your height basically equals to the span of your arms when you stretch them out to the sides. It can support 30 times the weight of a persons body. There is no one answer for this question since there are different ways to measure strength. Interesting facts about body proportions. The average adult human figure is about 7 to 75 heads tall.
Anatomy facts functions. There is absolute strength maximum force dynamic strength repeated motions elastic strength exert force quickly and strength endurance withstand fatigue. Your arms will be parallel to the ground. The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive. The average human brain is 93 mm high. The basic parts of the human body are.
99 quick and fascinating facts about the human body. The old saw that we use just 10 percent of our brainpower isnt true. The adult human brain is about 2 of the total body weight. According to one calculation the average human head contains 456 trillion trillion atoms. The average human brain is 140 mm wide. But did you know.
Characteristic of the vertebrate form the human body has an internal skeleton with a backbone and as with the mammalian form it has hair and mammary glands. Facts the adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds 1300 1400 g. Now stretch your arms out as far as they can reach. The idealized human figure is traditionally represented as being 8 heads tall. Hold one end of the piece. For most people their arm span is about equal to their.
Head from the bottom of the head to the middle height of a chest the place. The average human brain is 167 mm long. Human body the physical substance of the human organism. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea of the eye.