Medical Term:
body
Pronunciation: bod′ē
Definition:
- The head, neck, trunk, and limbs. The human body, consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra).
- The material part of a human, as distinguished from the mind and spirit.
- The principal mass of any structure.
- A thing; a substance.
Synonym(s): corpus1TA
[A.S. bodig]
See Also: soma
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