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:
“There’s a point of poverty at which the spirit isn’t with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it’s almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul’s not properly responsible.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“...we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.”
—Bible: New Testament, 2 Corinthians 5:8.
“And everything is gone, the body is gone
completely under, gone, entirely gone.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)