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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... They describe the relationship between the forces acting on a body and its motion due to those forces ... Second law The acceleration a of a body is parallel and directly proportional to the net force F acting on the body, is in the direction of the net force, and is inversely proportional to the mass m of ... Third law When a first body exerts a force F1 on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force F2 = −F1 on the first body ...
... Body substance isolation is a practice of isolating all body substances (blood, urine, feces, tears, etc.) of individuals undergoing medical treatment ...
... relies on the natural buoyancy of the human body, with the relative density of the average body, compared to water, of 0.98, creating a floating effect ... This varies on the basis of body composition, with body fat lowering the density, and increasing floatation ... relative density difference means that water supports the body during swimming, and therefore makes swimming low impact compared to surface activities such as running ...
... In the views emerging from the mind-body dichotomy, the body is considered in behavior and therefore considered as little valued and trivial in comparison to mind ... Materialist philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body, but is produced by physiological functions of the brain ...
... medicine, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Ayurveda Mind-body medicine takes a holistic approach to health that explores the interconnection between the mind, body, and spirit ... foods, vitamins, and other natural substances Manipulative and body-based practices feature manipulation or movement of body parts, such as is done in chiropractic and ...
More definitions of "body":
- (noun): A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity.
Example: "The whole body filed out of the auditorium"
- (noun): Body of a dead animal or person.
Example: "They found the body in the lake"
Synonyms: dead body
- (verb): Invest with or as with a body; give body to.
Synonyms: personify
- (noun): The external structure of a vehicle.
Example: "The body of the car was badly rusted"
- (noun): An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects.
Example: "Heavenly body"
- (noun): A collection of particulars considered as a system.
Example: "A body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
- (noun): The entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being).
Example: "He felt as if his whole body were on fire"
Synonyms: organic structure, physical structure
- (noun): The central message of a communication.
Example: "The body of the message was short"
Famous quotes containing the word body:
“The will to change begins in the body not in the mind
My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Of all illusions in the world, the most universally received is the concern for reputation and glory, which we espouse even to the point of giving up riches, rest, life, and health, which are effectual and substantial goods, to follow that vain phantom and mere sound that has neither body nor substance.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)