What's the difference between body and washcloth?

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.

Washcloth


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, friction from washcloths, rough clothing, and abrasives should be avoided.
  • (2) The most predictive risk factors were identified as poor teat and udder hygiene, poor environmental sanitation, large herd population, and use of a shared washcloth for premilking cleaning of teats and udders.
  • (3) He is regularly shown happily getting high to the Popeye theme tune, but in the end the boys encounter him at summer camp, having lost his girlfriend and newborn son, Washcloth, due to excessive drug use and turning to prostitution in order to fund his habit, prompting him to become clean.
  • (4) These findings question the clinical usefulness of the application of cold over padded aces and compression dressings and the use of a damp washcloth to 'protect' the skin from frostbite.
  • (5) Group 2 included patients who had moist, warm washcloths applied to the breasts for five minutes before breast stimulation.
  • (6) There were no significant differences between 13 patients and 26 control subjects for presence of ear disease (hearing loss, chronic infection, prior operations), swimming, showering, bathing, frequency of ear cleaning, or method of ear cleaning (washcloth, cotton applicator).
  • (7) The Scheffe procedure indicated three homogeneous subgroups at 30 minutes: no barrier, damp washcloth; ace, dry washcloth; and padded ace.
  • (8) We compared the heat retention characteristics of warm washcloths, hard-boiled eggs, and a heat-generating product called the Re-Heater when used for delivering heat to the eyelids.
  • (9) "To go from a patched oven mitt and a washcloth full of soap slivers, to $14,000 a month?"
  • (10) During the first minute, the surface temperature decreased an average of 22 degrees C (ace), 3.8 degrees C (dry washcloth), 5.2 degrees C (no barrier) and 5.4 degrees C (damp washcloth).

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