Recorded answers
2,035 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat this as a breadth test rather than a knowledge test. The scoring pool is enormous, which means the judges accepted practically every anatomical name their reference works contained, so the real work is generating volume and then picking the least ordinary entry you can honestly defend. Build a mental sweep from the outside in: visible surface features first, then the soft layers beneath, then the bony frame with its openings and depressions, then the contents of the cavity those bones enclose, and finally the microscopic level. Whenever you reach a structure, ask what attaches to it, what passes through it and what it is divided into, since each of those questions opens two or three narrower names.
Get a hint
Start from the most ordinary words you have for this region of the body, then ask what lies immediately underneath the surface you can see in a mirror.
A little more
Slide from what is visible to what an anatomy atlas describes: layers of tissue, named spaces, bony plates and the channels that run through them.
One step further
Push further into the microscopic end of the atlas, where cell groups, thin membranes and fluid-filled chambers carry long names almost nobody outside medicine has met.
Reveal answers 2,035
- Bowman's glandsDeep Cut85points
- Bowman's layerDeep Cut85points
- Branches of the facial nerveDeep Cut85points
- BregmaDeep Cut85points
- Bridging veinsDeep Cut85points
- Broca's areaDeep Cut85points
- Brodmann areasDeep Cut85points
- Bruch's membraneDeep Cut85points
- Buccal arteryDeep Cut85points
- Buccal branch of the facial nerveDeep Cut85points
- Buccal fat padDeep Cut85points
- Buccal frenulumDeep Cut85points
- Buccal glandsDeep Cut85points
- Buccal mucosaDeep Cut85points
- Buccal nerveDeep Cut85points
- Buccal spaceDeep Cut85points
- Buccal surfaceDeep Cut85points
- BuccinatorDeep Cut85points
- Buccinator lymph nodeDeep Cut85points
- Buccomaxillary ligamentDeep Cut85points
- Bulbar conjunctivaDeep Cut85points
- C-zoneDeep Cut85points
- Calcar avisDeep Cut85points
- Calcarine sulcusDeep Cut85points
- Callosal sulcusDeep Cut85points
- CalvariaDeep Cut85points
- Canaliculus innominatusDeep Cut85points
- Canalis sinuosusDeep Cut85points
- Canine eminenceDeep Cut85points
- Canine fossaDeep Cut85points
- Cardiovascular centerDeep Cut85points
- Caroticotympanic arteryDeep Cut85points
- Carotid canalDeep Cut85points
- Carotid grooveDeep Cut85points
- Cartilaginous ear canalDeep Cut85points
- CaruncleDeep Cut85points
- Caudal septumDeep Cut85points
- Caudate nucleusDeep Cut85points
- Cavernous segment of internal carotidDeep Cut85points
- Cavernous sinusDeep Cut85points
- Cavum conchaeDeep Cut85points
- Cementoenamel junctionDeep Cut85points
- CementumDeep Cut85points
- Central forehead fat compartmentDeep Cut85points
- Central fossaDeep Cut85points
- Central incisorsDeep Cut85points
- Central lobuleDeep Cut85points
- Central nucleus of the amygdalaDeep Cut85points
- Central retinal arteryDeep Cut85points
- Central retinal veinDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually flat. With 2016 recorded entries, 1882 of them sit on 85 points and only 98 land on 60, which tells you that scoring barely ranks originality inside the accepted set; almost anything correct was worth the same. The single 100-point entry, Habenula, is a tiny diencephalic nucleus that medical students meet late, and it stands alone at the top precisely because the reference list mostly stops at structures a trained anatomist would recognize. Below that plateau, entries such as Abducens nerve, Accessory meningeal artery and Agger nasi all score 85, so a cranial nerve, a small arterial branch and a bony ridge of the nasal cavity are treated as equally deep cuts. So the practical lesson is to reach for the smallest named subdivision you can spell correctly, because inside the accepted set obscurity was hardly rewarded and only the far tail earned more.