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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“An afternoon of nurses and rumours;
The provinces of his body revolted,
The squares of his mind were empty,
Silence invaded the suburbs,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)