List of individual body parts

Body parts supposed to belong to major religious figures are kept in temples, including the tooth of the Buddha, Muhammad's beard, and Jesus's foreskin.

Preservation of body parts is particularly popular within the Roman Catholic Church, where the relics are often housed in reliquaries and lipsanothecae.

Heart-burial (burying the heart separately from the body) was not uncommon for the elite in medieval Europe.

[2] Body parts removed from people have been used for research or put on display in museums and churches.

Noted body parts include the lost limbs of soldiers, such as Lord Uxbridge's leg or Stonewall Jackson's arm, as well as the heads and brains of criminals.