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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. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The soul, acording to many religious and philosophical traditions, is a self-aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being. ... In psychology, personality is a description of consistent emotional, thought, and behavior patterns in a person. ... For the Pet Shop Boys album of the same name see Behaviour Behavior or behaviour (see spelling differences) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... A strand of human hair under magnification Hair is also the name of a musical, see respective articles for the stage production and the movie. ... Feces, faeces, or fæces (see spelling differences) is waste product from an animals digestive tract expelled through the anus (or cloaca) during defecation. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Pteridophyta - ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Drawing of the structure of cork as it appeared under the microscope to Robert Hooke from Micrographia which is the origin of the word cell. Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green). ...

"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. Variation in the physical appearance of humans is believed by anthropologists to be an important factor in the development of personality and social relations in particular physical attractiveness. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Classes and Clades See below Male and female Superb Fairy-wren Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata (within the phylum Chordata), specifically, those chordates with backbones or spinal columns. ... Orders See taxonomy Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species — more than all other animal groups combined [1]. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a...

The study of the structure of the body is called anatomy. The study of the workings of the body is physiology. Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ... Leonardo da Vincis Vitruvian Man, an important early achievement in the study of physiology. ...

The human body consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ... For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation). ... A human neck. ... The human torso Torso is an anatomical term for the greater part of the human body without the head and limbs. ... In anatomy, an arm is one of the upper limbs of a two-legged animal. ... In common usage, a human leg is the lower limb of the body, extending from the hip to the ankle, and including the thigh, the knee, and the cnemis. ...

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. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Membership can refer to: Set membership - comprising part of a set in mathematics Social group membership - in sociology, the process of socialisation aims/results in achieving membership of a social group This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The ASCII codes for the word Wikipedia represented in binary, the numeral system most commonly used for encoding computer information. ... Look up phrase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Body Ecology focuses on the interactions among animals and various microbes living inside them. Ernst Haeckel coined the term oekologie in 1866. ...

There are 206 different bones in the human body, and over 600 muscles.

See also

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

Anatomical drawing of the human muscles from the Encyclopédie. ... Schematic of antibody binding to an antigen An antibody or immunoglobulin is a large Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects like bacteria and viruses. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The medical idea of (grievous) bodily harm is more specific than legal ideas of assault or violence in general, and distinct from property damage. ... John Locke defines body as (Nidditch, 1975) P. H. Nidditch (Ed. ... Look up disability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... It has been suggested that Refractory disease be merged into this article or section. ... A termite cathedral mound produced by a termite colony: a classic example of emergence in nature. ... General Fitness is much more then just looking good. ... Healing is the process whereby the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic area. ... Variation in the physical appearance of humans is believed by anthropologists to be an important factor in the development of personality and social relations in particular physical attractiveness. ... Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ... gay ... A physical body is an object which can be described by the theories of classical mechanics, or quantum mechanics, and experimented upon by physical instruments. ... In medicine, a trauma patient has suffered serious and life-threatening physical injury resulting in secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death. ...

See also: regarding corpses

• Autopsy
• Burial
• Cremation
• Death
• Embalming
• Mummy
• Necrophilia
• Respect for the dead
• Dead bodies and health risks
• Body Farm

Post-mortem, postmortem and post mortem redirect here. ... For the musician, see Burial (musician). ... The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains to forestall decomposition and make it suitable for display at a funeral. ... A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or airlessness. ... Look up Necrophilia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Thanatology is the scientific study of death. ... After disasters with extensive loss of life, much resource is often expended on burying the dead quickly, and applying disinfectant to bodies, to prevent diseases from speading. ... The Body Farm, or the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, is located a few miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee, near the Universitys medical center, and is used for the study of human decomposition that occurs after death. ...

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)