Fiche vocabulaire anglais : le corps humain

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the few men who wore the beard or portions of the beard during this period were either old, central europeans, members of a religious sect that required it, in academia, or part of the counterculture, such as the "beatniks". (source : Wikipedia).

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in fish, food is ingested through the mouth and then broken down in the esophagus. (source : wikipedia).

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however, in the early twentieth century beards started a slow decline in popularity, while some prominent figures retained them (like sigmund freud, albeit severely shortened from the fashion of prior decades) most men which in the 20s and 30s still retained facial hair limited it to the moustache or a goatee (marcel proust, albert einstein, vladimir lenin, leon trotsky, adolf hitler, josef stalin) beards, together with long hair, were reintroduced to mainstream society in western europe and the americas by the hippie movement of the mid 1960s. (source : Wikipedia).

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mudskippers breathe by absorbing oxygen across the skin (similar to what frogs do). (source : wikipedia).

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this bud, also called the metanephrogenic diverticulum, grows posteriorly and towards the head of the embryo. (source : Wikipedia).

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as well as controlling the functions of some of the muscles and body organs, in bony fish at least the brain stem is also concerned with respiration and osmoregulation. (source : wikipedia).

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the main organ of the cardiovascular system, the heart, is generally located in the middle of the thorax. (source : Wikipedia).

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the blood goes from the heart to gills, from the gills to the rest of the body, and then back to the heart. (source : wikipedia).

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there are two, one on each side of the spine; the right kidney sits just below the diaphragm and posterior to the liver, the left below the diaphragm and posterior to the spleen. (source : Wikipedia).

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the prefix nephro- meaning kidney is from the ancient greek word nephros (νεφρός); the adjective renal meaning related to the kidney is from latin rēnēs, meaning kidneys. (source : Wikipedia).

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for this reason, most poskim (jewish legal decisors) rule that orthodox jews may use electric razors to remain cleanshaven, as such shavers cut by trapping the hair between the blades and the metal grating, halakhically a scissor-like action. (source : Wikipedia).

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when it enters the stomach, the food is further broken down and, in many fish, further processed in fingerlike pouches called pyloric caeca. (source : wikipedia).

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if this seems wasteful, put the plug in the sink, and keep an eye on the water level. (source : Recettes de cuisine).

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amish and hutterite men shave until they are married, then grow a beard and are never thereafter without one, although it is a particular form of a beard (see visual markers of marital status). (source : Wikipedia).