Your Organs

🧠 About your organs (Organs)

An organ is a body part with a big job. Your brain thinks, your lungs breathe, your stomach mashes food, and your kidneys clean your blood.

Organs work in teams called systems. Your mouth, stomach and intestines are the digestive system. Your nose, windpipe and lungs are the breathing system. Your brain and nerves are the nervous system.

Most organs are packed snugly inside your chest and belly, kept safe by your ribs and backbone.

• Biggest organ insideliver
• Small intestineabout 20 feet
• Brain cellsabout 86 billion

• 🧠 Brain: Your brain is the boss of your body. It helps you think, feel, move and remember.
• ⚡ Nerves (Spinal cord and nerves): Nerves are like wires that carry messages between your brain and every part of your body.
• 👁️ Eyes: Your eyes catch light and send pictures to your brain so you can see.
• 👂 Ears: Your ears catch sounds and send them to your brain. They also help you keep your balance.
• 👃 Nose (Smell): Your nose lets air in, cleans it, and smells cookies, flowers and stinky socks too!
• 👅 Tongue: Your tongue is a strong, wiggly muscle that tastes your food and helps you talk.
• 🦷 Teeth: Your teeth bite and chew your food into small pieces so you can swallow it.
• 🗣️ Voice box (Larynx): Your voice box is in your throat. It buzzes when you talk, sing, laugh or shout.
• 🦋 Thyroid: Your thyroid is a little butterfly in your neck that helps your body grow and use energy.
• 🌬️ Windpipe (Trachea): Your windpipe is a tube that carries the air you breathe down to your lungs.
• 🥤 Food pipe (Esophagus): Your food pipe is a squeezy tube that carries food from your mouth down to your stomach.
• 🫁 Lungs: Your two lungs fill up with air like balloons, bringing in the oxygen your body needs.
• 🧪 Liver: Your liver is a big, busy helper that cleans your blood and helps digest your food.
• 🍐 Gallbladder: Your gallbladder is a little pouch that saves bile, a juice that helps you digest fat.
• 🥣 Stomach: Your stomach is a stretchy bag that mashes your food into a soupy mush.
• 🔑 Pancreas: Your pancreas makes juices to digest food and insulin to help your body use sugar.
• 🛡️ Spleen: Your spleen cleans your blood and helps your body fight germs.
• 🌀 Small intestine: Your small intestine is a long, curly tube that soaks up the good stuff from your food.
• 💩 Large intestine (Colon): Your large intestine soaks up water from leftover food and turns the rest into poop.
• 👉 Appendix: Your appendix is a tiny pouch shaped like a finger, hanging off your large intestine.
• 🫘 Kidneys: Your two kidneys clean your blood and turn extra water and waste into pee.
• 🎈 Bladder: Your bladder is a stretchy bag that holds your pee until you go to the bathroom.
• 🍽️ Digestion (Digestive system): Digestion is the big journey your food takes, from your first bite all the way to poop.