Body

Body

With regard to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The study of the workings of the body is physiology.

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Famous quotes containing the word body:

    “The body in the grave is like the tree in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness.... We too must wait for the springtime of the body.”
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cent. A.D.)

    “No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “American Archangel you are going—
    your body as big as a moving van—
    the houses, the highways are turning you in.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)