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:

    “All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “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)

    “There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)