10 Body Parts with 3 Letter Names Quiz

Answer: toe

One of the earliest known prosthetic devices is a wooden big toe found on a mummy from approximately 1000-700 BC.

Answer: leg

The iconic pirate Long John Silver was a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", first published as a serial in "Young Folks" magazine in 1881-1882. Any medical dictionary makes it clear that the definition for a doctor is that leg means only the lower leg.

Answer: hip

A person's waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is sometimes used as a health indicator.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is an increased health risk for woman with a WHR greater than 0.80 and for men with a WHR greater than 0.90.

Answer: rib

The lowest two pairs of ribs in the human body are called "floating ribs" because they are not attached directly to the sternum nor to cartilage attached to the sternum. They are, however, attached to the vertebrae and tissues, so they are not freely floating around the body.

While most people have two pairs of these "floating ribs", it is not uncommon for people to have only one pair or even three pairs.

Answer: arm

In both the 1963-1967 television series "The Fugitive," and in the 1993 film, Dr. Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder but escapes and searches for the real killer, a "one-armed man." In the original television show, the killer was portrayed by Bill Raisch, who lost his right arm in World War II.

In the 1993 movie, the two-armed Andreas Katsulas played the one-armed man.

Answer: jaw

The 1975 film "Jaws" is about a rogue shark terrorizing a coastal community. One memorable line from the film is: "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Answer: lip

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow," is a line, spoken by Lauren Bacall, from the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not." Some people incorrectly believe the quote is from "Casablanca" (1942). Both films star Humphrey Bogart as an expatriate American getting involved with the resistance movement during World War II.

Answer: eye

Van Morrison's signature song "Brown Eyed Girl" was released in 1967. 40 years later, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.

Answer: ear

Disney's 1941 film "Dumbo" was about a little elephant with extremely large ears that are initially a source of ridicule, until he uses them to fly. Although the other elephants talk in the film, Dumbo never speaks, and his mother's one line in the film is to name her son "Jumbo, Jr."

Answer: gum

Periodontology is a dental specialty that focuses on the structures around the teeth, such as the gingiva or gums.

"Bleeding Gums" Murphy was a character in early episodes of "The Simpsons" cartoon show (1989-). He explained his nickname by stating that he had never been to a dentist.