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  • Begin! Welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alisha, and this week we're gonna talk

  • about super obscure body parts.” I'm a little nervous. I'm not gonna lie. Okay. Super.

  • What?

  • Philtrumis the first word. “Philtrum:” “the groove located just below the nose

  • and above the middle of the lips.” That has a word. “Philtrum.” That's this, I

  • guess. In a sentence, maybe you would sayWhatHow can you use this in a sentence?

  • Let's see. “I'm thinking of getting my philtrum pierced. What do you think about

  • that idea?” It's gross! “I hurt my philtrum in in football practice yesterday.” Who

  • saysphiltrum”?

  • Next islarynx.” Thelarynxis thevoice boxwhere your voice comes

  • from. There's quite a definition here: “the hollow, muscular organ forming an air passage

  • to the lungs and holding the vocal cords.” Usually I think we just say the voice box,

  • so I think thelarynx,” in particular, is really important for singers and people

  • who need to use their voice a lot. I think that they're even, you know, special techniques

  • that some people use to protect their larynx as well. In a sentence, maybe… “I have

  • to be careful not to damage my larynx because I need to be performing regularly,

  • and my voice is very important to my job,” for example.

  • Alright. Next isnavel.” “Navelis commonly referred to as yourbelly button.”

  • It's that, you know, for some people it's indented. For some people it kind of protrudes

  • a little bit. But thenavelis just your belly button. Uh, to use it in a sentence,

  • let's see... Oh, I'm thinking of piercing my navel. Oh! Oh! I have an example now. Maybe

  • if you've had to have surgery on your on your stomach, that's near your navel, um,

  • your navel, the shape of it might be impacted. This happened to my mom, so that's why I

  • thought of it. When you meet with your doctor, the doctor might say, “During the surgery,

  • some of the skin near your navel might be affected by what we're going to do.”

  • Next ispinky.” Yourpinkyisthe smallest finger on either one of your hands.”

  • You can usepinky finger,” alternatively, yourpinky toe,” your

  • small toe, is also referred to as yourpinky.” In a sentence you might say, “Oh no, I broke

  • my pinky finger. I have a piano recital in three days.” That actually happened to me

  • when I was little. That's not a lie. That's a real story. Broke my, this pinky finger.

  • That was a good day.

  • Anyway. Next, “scapula.” A “scapulais yourshoulder bladeon the back of

  • your body... your scapula. Yeah, what else can I say about that, your

  • scapula”? Your shoulder blade. You have two.I think, yes. Maybe if you're a physical,

  • therapist or if you're someone who needs to train athletes, you might need to stretch,

  • uh, their scapula from time to time to make sure that it's healthy or in good shape. “Make

  • sure to stretch your scapula before and after every workout to make sure that you don't

  • damage it.”

  • Alright, end!. That's the end of obscure body parts. I learned some things. I hope

  • that you learned some things too. Thanks for joining us for Weekly Words, and I will see

  • you again next time. Bye-bye!

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