(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.
Precession
Definition:
(n.) The act of going before, or forward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Self-reported and observer-rated signs and symptoms of nicotine withdrawal were assessed precessation and 2, 7, 14, 30, 90, and 180 days postcessation in smokers who quit on their own for 30 days.
(2) This review of basic physics of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) discusses precession of magnetic nuclei in a static external field, introduces the concept of the rotating frame, and describes excitation of nuclei by an RF field.
(3) By allowing a free precession interval before signal acquisition, time is left for field gradients to be switched and for undesirable transients to decay.
(4) We report in vitro and in vivo MR studies of hemorrhage using the gradient-echo pulse sequence, FISP (steady state free precession) and FLASH (spoiling of transverse magnetization) at 1.5 Tesla.
(5) Precession photographs from these crystal forms are very alike, suggesting the molecular packing to be similar in all three forms.
(6) Crystals were analyzed using precession photography and were assigned to trigonal space group R32 with unit cell dimensions a = b = 115 A, c = 385 A.
(7) The results obtained in a previous study using 131I fibrinogen in cancerous patients suggested a local intravascular clotting precess.
(8) According to the study of the 8 cases published since 1956 and of this personal case the precession of a benign porosyringeal tumour seems probable but has never been proved.
(9) Canavanine also affects regulatory and catalytic reactions of arginine metabolism, arginine uptake, formation of structural components, and other cellular precesses.
(10) The temperature, concentration and Larmor precession frequency dependences can be well described by the conception of fast exchange in a simple biphasic model of water molecules rotation in the first hydration layer with slight anisotropy of motion.
(11) The space group and unit cell dimensions were determined with a precession camera and a four-circle diffractometer to be C222(1), and a = 157.1 A, b = 85.5 A, and c = 79.7 A, respectively.
(12) Microperfusion of pertubular capillaries failed to demonstrate urinary precession of 3H-gentamicin over 14C-inulin, a finding which argues against a rapid transtubular secretory flux of gentamicin.
(13) When this residual phase coherency is utilized in conjunction with the fast SSFP (steady-state free precession) technique, both the FID and the echo signals can be obtained.
(14) Steady-state free precession (SSFP) pulse sequences can produce magnetic resonance (MR) images rapidly, in which cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is several times more intense than the other tissues.
(15) The detector is stationary which causes a distortion that is negligible for precession angles less than 10 degrees.
(16) There exists an age-related precession of taurine uptake values by brush border membrane vesicles prepared from nursing rats from youngest to oldest.
(17) Naturally processed peptide fragments bound to MHC class II molecules are peptides of 13-17 amino acids which appear to be precessively truncated from the carboxy terminus, perhaps after binding to the MHC class II molecule.
(18) The space group was determined using screenless small-angle precession photographs, and was confirmed by analyzing area detector diffraction data with the XENGEN programs for indexing and refinement.
(19) In a series of 18 consecutive cases of acute significant inversion trauma to the ankle, a three-dimensional fast imaging with steady-state precession pulse sequence (3D FISP) was performed.
(20) Results indicated that a FISP (fast imaging with steady precession) sequence with a TR of 50 msec, TE of 15 msec, velocity compensation in the read and section-select directions, acceleration compensation in the read direction, anisotropic volume, and a 1.25-mm partition thickness produced three-dimensional angiographic MR images that were accurate and reproducible in the depiction of the major intracranial vessels.