Body

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Corpse redirects here. The meaning "organized group of people" is correctly spelled corps.

For other uses, see Body (disambiguation).

For the BBC comedy series, see Human Remains.

With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. 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. Plants composed of more than one cell are not normally regarded as possessing a body.

"Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The body of a dead person is also called a corpse, for humans, or cadaver. The dead bodies of vertebrate animals and insects are sometimes called carcasses.

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.

The study of the working of a body is anatomy.

A body is also a held-together collection or group of physical objects or abstract ideas and, in particular, an organisation of such. The whole is more than the simple sum of the individual members, because the whole contains, in addition, information about the relationships among the elements of the whole. The body of evidence is a phrase which defines the sum total of all knowledge or evidence of some thing.

Body Ecology focuses on the interactions among animals and various microbes living inside them.

[edit] See also

• Physical body
• Antibody
• Battery
• Bodily harm
• Disability
• Disease
• Emergence
• Healing
• Health
• Human physical appearance
• Human body
• Trauma
• Microtrauma
• General Fitness Training

[edit] See also: regarding corpses

• Autopsy
• Burial
• Cremation
• Death
• Embalming
• Mummy
• Necrophilia
• Respect for the dead
• Dead bodies and health risks
• Body Farm
  • Corpsing is a mishap during a theater play.

[edit] Books

• Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, 2., revised ed., New York, N.Y : Basic Books, 1992
• Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, 2004, Penguin Books Ltd., UK (ISBN 0-14-100745-1)
• Jessica Snyder Sachs, Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death (ISBN 0-7382-0771-3)