Body

With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior.

Related Topics:
Living things - Soul - Personality - Behavior

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In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as stool, both while residing in the body and afterwards.

Related Topics:
Hair - Stool

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Plants composed of more than one cell are not normally regarded as possessing a body.

Related Topics:
Plant - Cell

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"Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death.

Related Topics:
Appearance - Health - Death

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The body of a dead person is also called a corpse (human) or cadaver.

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The dead bodies of vertebrate animals and insects are sometimes called carcasses.

Related Topics:
Vertebrate - Insect

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The human body consists of a head, neck, trunk, two arms, two legs and the genitals of the groin, which differ between males and females.

Related Topics:
Human body - Head - Neck - Trunk - Arm - Leg - Genitals - Male - Female

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The study of the working of a body is anatomy.

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A body is also a held-together collection or group of physical objects or abstract ideas, and in particular an organisation.

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The whole is of more than the sum of the individual members.

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