If you’ve ever been to a county fair or some other tourist destination, you may well have stood behind one of those boards whose front was painted with a humorous picture and stuck your head through the cutout hole hoping to end up with a priceless keepsake of your visit.

But did you ever wonder just what that holey board was called? A friend recently did, and it turns out that the wooden creation goes by a couple of names: either a “face-in-the-hole” or a “photo stand-in.”

Naturally, my friend’s quest for the unusual name of something started me thinking about all the other things we see all the time but don’t know the names of, and off I went down the rabbit hole in search of other things that have odd names.

It turns out there are quite a few, and many have to do with the human body, so let’s start revealing them.

Give yourself a hand for having perlicues, which are those spaces between your outstretched thumbs and forefingers. Not far from your thumbs are your rasceta, or those lines on the inside of your wrist.

Moving down the line is your stomach, which could contain collywobbles (butterflies) when you’re nervous or may wamble (rumble) when you’re hungry.

If you overdid it when you alleviated that hunger, you could end up suffering from that sick feeling you get after having eaten too much, which is called crapulence (really). A sort-of related word that comes to mind at this time is “natiform,” a term, according to the internet, for “objects that kind of look like butts.” OK, let’s put this one behind us.

Going even lower are our feet, which have their own oddly named conditions. For instance, they might be suffering from time to time with paresthesia, or that pins-and-needles feeling of having one of them fall asleep.

Why would your dogs need a nap? Maybe they’re afflicted with Morton’s toes, which are what your second toes are called when they’re bigger than your big toes. (For what it’s worth, “minimus” is another word for your little toe — or finger.)

Now it’s time to face up to the fact that our faces also have plenty of weird words to describe their various features. Take the glabella for instance. From the Latin word glabellus (smooth), it describes the area between the eyebrows. As for your eyes themselves, those little fireworks you see when you rub them are called phosphenes.

A little sniffing around the nose reveals that that bit of skin separating your nostrils is called the columella, and shouldn’t be confused with the septum, which is inside the nose. And the name of that little patch of skin that resides between the nose and upper lip? That’s called the philtrum — even when it’s covered by a mustache.

And finally, if I had to pick a winner of all those funny facially oriented words, it would have to be rhinotillexomania, which, according to the internet, is “the scientific term for compulsive nose-picking.” Stop that.

Jim Witherell of Lewiston is a writer and lover of words whose work includes “L.L. Bean: The Man and His Company” and “Ed Muskie: Made in Maine.” He can be reached at jlwitherell19@gmail.com.