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Pronunciation: bod′ē
  1. The head, neck, trunk, and limbs. The human body, consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra).
  2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the mind and spirit.
  3. The principal mass of any structure.
  4. A thing; a substance.

Synonym(s): corpus 1 TA

[A.S. bodig]

See Also: soma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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