Interesting Human Anatomy Facts:

• Posted by Evert Chris Dimalanta February 10, 2014 - Filed in Other - ##science #human #anatomy  - 2,588 views

  

  1. The length between your elbow and hand (forearm) equals the length of your foot.

  2. If you fully stretch your arms out, the fingertip to fingertip length is almost exactly your body height.

  3. The nails on long fingers grow faster than short fingers; and fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.

  4. Corneas are the only tissues that don't require blood.

  5. The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.

  6. While only 2% in weight, the human brain requires 15% of the body's heart work, 20% of oxygen and 25% of all glucose.

  7. For every 1000 red blood cells in our body, there is only about one white cell.

  8. An average adult human has skin weighing about 3kg in total.

  9. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times each year.

  10. Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.