(n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
(n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
(n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
(n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
(n.) A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
(n.) A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
(n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
(n.) Amount; quantity; extent.
(n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
(n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
(n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
(n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
(n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(3) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(4) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(7) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(8) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(9) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(10) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(11) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(12) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(13) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(14) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(15) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(16) The BMDs of the DM-HD group were lower in these areas and whole body than that in the non-DM,HD group.
(17) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.
(18) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(19) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(20) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
Centrum
Definition:
(n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Example Sentences:
(1) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(2) CT scanner findings suggest the association of a massive demyelination of centrum semiovale, with cerebral oedema.
(3) Centrum semiovale (CSO) CT attenuation numbers decreased with increasing age for both white and grey matter.
(4) The densest and most oriented bone was found in the superior and inferior sections of the posterior-lateral centrum, whereas least dense and least oriented bone was found in the central third of the anterior centrum.
(5) On the contrary, after electroacupuncture we have not found methionine-enkephalin-like fibres in the thalamic nuclei centrum medianum, parascicularis and subparafascicularis, in which in the animals no pretreated with electroacupuncture, immunoreactive fibres were observed.
(6) The most prominent magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities were the presence of radially oriented cystic areas in the centrum semiovale, peritrigonal white matter, corpus callosum, and pericallosal region.
(7) Bone formation in the vertebral centra commences within the centrum and is in this respect analogous to the secondary ossification which occurs in the epiphysis of a long bone.
(8) In the caudal diencephalon, the ascending fibers entered the centrum medianum-parafascicular complex where they diverged into two fascicles: a dorsal fascicle which terminated in the intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus, and a ventral fascicle which gave off fibers to the ventrobasal complex and reticular nucleus of the thalamus while continuing centrolaterally into the lateral hypothalamus medial to the internal capsule.
(9) IAPP mRNA was present in the antrum, centrum and pylorus and, like gastrin, the highest amounts were in the pylorus.
(10) In addition, two infants showed delayed myelination in the central occipital white matter and one in the centrum semiovale.
(11) The site of the inhibition is still unknown, nevertheless, the demonstration that PCPS was able to inhibit both evoked potentials in Centrum Medianum and JOR support the hypothesis that the analgesic effects may be due to descending inhibition blocking transmission of nociceptive information through the spinal cord.
(12) Two major systems of cholinergic projection neurons are found within the centrum of the mammalian brain: the basal nuclear complex, projecting predominantly to the cerebral cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, and the pontomesencephalotegmental network, innervating primarily the thalamus.
(13) Nevertheless, the size of the lesion seen in NMR is not relevant, as observed in one case of an extensive plaque within the centrum semiovale.
(14) The authors studied 5 rhesus monkeys for the effects of annulotomy, with or without the addition of a bacterially-derived collagenase into the nuclear-evacuated centrum of lumbar intervertebral discs.
(15) Computed tomographic scan of the head showed low attenuation of the periventricular white matter and centrum semiovale.
(16) The average distance between lumbar centrums increased nearly linearly throughout the second and third trimesters (r2 = 0.98).
(17) This focus becomes the source of a chronic vasogenic edema, which in turn is most likely to be responsible for the partial demyelination of the adjacent centrum semiovale.
(18) Against this was there were no cell-kinetic changes between centrum and borders of the xenograft tumors.
(19) Thirty eight centrum tendineum of camel from both sexes and of different ages, and fifteen diaphragms of camel fetuses of different CR length were used for the description of the morphological and micromorphological features of the centrum tendineum.
(20) One is located in the immediate periventricular region; the other, in the deep subcortical white matter (centrum semiovale).