What's the difference between body and flex?

Body


Definition:

  • (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.

Flex


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm.
  • (n.) Flax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
  • (2) Pharmacological actions on the nociceptive flexion flexes of the hindlimb were investigated in 14 normal subjects.
  • (3) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
  • (4) With the whole spine flexed, muscle activity in the cervical erector spinae, trapezius and thoracic erector spinae muscles was higher than when the whole spine was straight and vertical.
  • (5) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
  • (6) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
  • (7) This paper examined the mobility of intervertebral joints in axial rotation in a neutral and in two flexed positions.
  • (8) When the hair is maintained flexed its sensory neurone discharges tonically (Fig.
  • (9) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
  • (10) On admission, his right hand and all of right fingers were flexed.
  • (11) These tendons pass dorsally from the median nerve through the carpal canal, where the nerve is subject to pressure when the tendons stretch whilst the wrist is flexed.
  • (12) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
  • (13) An extended position proved to be more successful in demonstrating that finding than the flexed one.
  • (14) Blood pump diaphragms are required to be biocompatible and must be capable of long-term flexing without failure.
  • (15) As the earliest treatment the fixation of the shoulder joint in abduction and external rotation with flexed elbow on a splint as prevention of further stretch on the plexus and contractures seems to be the most important masure; later on a physio-therapy and mobilisation of the joints is of essential importance.
  • (16) At approximately 70% of the fracture load for the 90 degrees flexed knee, nearly 35% of the contact area was exposed to pressures greater than 25 MPa.
  • (17) A separation between the femur and the tibia of 1.3-3.8 mm was found in 3 knees which were slightly flexed during the traction.
  • (18) Cholesterol and stigmastanol are largely buried in the hydrocarbon part of the membrane, distinctly restricting the flexing motions of the fatty acyl chains whereas the conformation of the phospholipid headgroups is little affected.
  • (19) After ingesting even a small amount of sucrose, the fly begins making frequent, tight turns, flexes its front tarsi to bring more chemosensory hairs into contact with the substrate and repeatedly extends and retracts its proboscis.
  • (20) Another case confirmed that an abduction force on the flexed hip can produce anterior dislocation of the hip.