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Words That Also Mean Internal Parts of the Body

Showing courage takes guts.
Definitions gleaned from the Oxford English Dictionary.
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The central or most important part of something (of a matter, or a city, perhaps).
Heart
To put up with or tolerate something.
Stomach
A small room inhabited by a hermit, a monk or a prisoner.
Cell
To coerce someone by using threats or violence.
Muscle
Keep your ____ to show boldness in adversity or danger. But to have a ____ is to be rather cheeky.
Nerve
Kindred or family. Also, youths use it to address a close male friend.
Blood
A large musical instrument consisting of pipes with compressed air, sounded by a keyboard.
Organ
Indignation and ill humour. You can vent it at someone, though.
Spleen
A deposit of a metallic ore, filling a crack or fissure in the rock.
Vein
Seen at the Winter Olympics, a person rides this small sled head first down a frozen track.
Skeleton
An often green, stripey or white type of squash, like a large courgette (zucchini).
Marrow
A main channel of communication, like a large road or river.
Artery
A membrane or plate serving as a partition (in cameras it has a hole, the aperture).
Diaphragm
A soft absorbent paper used as a handkerchief.
Tissue
A punctuation mark consisting of two dots placed one above the other.
Colon
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