A real body · six systems

See what you're made of.

A real human body, rebuilt from medical scans. Tour six systems, then take over: turn it, strip it back and click any of 2,000 structures.

206Bones
600+Muscles
2,000Scanned structures
6Systems

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01 / 06 · Skeletal system

The frame.

206 bones hold you up, guard your organs and make your blood. Every one here is the true shape of a real bone, down to the 27 in each hand.

206bones in an adult
¼of your height is femur
27bones in each hand
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02 / 06 · Muscular system

The engine.

More than 600 muscles pull on those bones. Together they make up roughly 40% of your weight, from the great sheets of the back to the six that aim each eye.

600+skeletal muscles
40%of body weight
6muscles move each eye
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03 / 06 · Circulatory system

The river.

A fist-sized heart pushes about 5 litres of blood a minute through arteries out to the body and veins back again. Watch it move.

100,000heartbeats a day
5 Lpumped every minute
2.5 cmwidth of the aorta
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04 / 06 · Nervous system

The network.

The brain and spinal cord send signals along nerves to every part of you at up to about 120 metres a second.

86 billionneurons in the brain
120 m/stop signal speed
31pairs of spinal nerves
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05 / 06 · Respiratory system

The breath.

Air runs down the windpipe and through airways that divide about 23 times before they reach the air sacs. One lung is glass here so you can see inside.

12–20breaths a minute at rest
23times the airways divide
11 cmlength of the trachea
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06 / 06 · Digestive system

The fuel line.

A tube about 9 metres long, from mouth to rectum, breaks food down and takes what you need, helped by the liver, gallbladder and pancreas.

9 mfrom mouth to rectum
6 mof small intestine
1.5 kgweight of the liver
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Your turn

Now take it apart.

Isolate a system, ghost the rest, hide a muscle to see what lies beneath, or click any structure to read what it does.

Body systems


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