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With regard to living things
Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
, a body is the integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance
Appearance

Appearance may refer to:* Visual appearance, the way in which objects reflect and transmit light.* Human physical appearance* Phenomena, in philosophy...
, health
Health

In 1948, the World Health Organisation defined health as ?a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.? ...
 issues and death
Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
. The study of the workings of the body is physiology
Physiology

Physiology is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has traditionally been divided between plant physiology and animal and all living things physiology but the principles of physiology are universal, no matter what particular organism is being studied....
.

human body mostly consists of a head, neck
Neck

The neck is the part of the body on many limbed vertebrates that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk. The scientific term signifying "of the neck" is nuchal....
, torso
Torso

Torso is an anatomical term for the central part of the many animal bodies from which extend the neck and limbs. It is sometimes referred to as the trunk....
, two arm
Arm

In anatomy, an arm is one of the upper limbs of an animal. The term arm can also be used for analogous structures, such as one of the paired upper limbs of a four-legged animal, or the cephalopod arm....
s and two legs
Human leg

In common usage, the human leg is the lower limb of the human body, extending from the knee to the ankle, and excluding the thigh,The largest bone in the human body, the femur, is in the leg ....
.

ome contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair
Hair

Hair is a protein filament that epidermal growth from hair follicle deep within the dermis. The fine, soft hair found on many nonhuman mammals is typically called fur; wool is the characteristically curly hair found on sheep and goats....
 may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached.






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With regard to living things
Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
, a body is the integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance
Appearance

Appearance may refer to:* Visual appearance, the way in which objects reflect and transmit light.* Human physical appearance* Phenomena, in philosophy...
, health
Health

In 1948, the World Health Organisation defined health as ?a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.? ...
 issues and death
Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
. The study of the workings of the body is physiology
Physiology

Physiology is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has traditionally been divided between plant physiology and animal and all living things physiology but the principles of physiology are universal, no matter what particular organism is being studied....
.

Human body

The human body mostly consists of a head, neck
Neck

The neck is the part of the body on many limbed vertebrates that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk. The scientific term signifying "of the neck" is nuchal....
, torso
Torso

Torso is an anatomical term for the central part of the many animal bodies from which extend the neck and limbs. It is sometimes referred to as the trunk....
, two arm
Arm

In anatomy, an arm is one of the upper limbs of an animal. The term arm can also be used for analogous structures, such as one of the paired upper limbs of a four-legged animal, or the cephalopod arm....
s and two legs
Human leg

In common usage, the human leg is the lower limb of the human body, extending from the knee to the ankle, and excluding the thigh,The largest bone in the human body, the femur, is in the leg ....
.

Limitation

In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair
Hair

Hair is a protein filament that epidermal growth from hair follicle deep within the dermis. The fine, soft hair found on many nonhuman mammals is typically called fur; wool is the characteristically curly hair found on sheep and goats....
 may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as stool
Feces

Feces, faeces, or f?ces is a waste product from an animal's gastrointestinal tract expelled through the anus during defecation....
, both while residing in the body and afterwards. Plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s composed of more than one cell
Cell (biology)

The cell is the structural and functional unit of all known Life organisms. It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building bricks of life....
 are not normally regarded as possessing a body.

Variations

The dead body of a human
Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
 is referred to as a cadaver
Cadaver

A cadaver is a dead human body.Cadaver may also refer to:* Cadaver tomb, tomb featuring an effigy in the form of a decomposing body* Cadaver , a video game...
, or corpse. The dead bodies of vertebrate
Vertebrate

Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with Vertebras or Vertebral columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae....
 animals, insect
Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s and humans are sometimes called carcasses
Carcass

Carcass may refer to:* Carcase the body of slaughtered animal after the removal of the offal etc.*Carcass A term for a dead body, typically that of an animal....
. The study of the structure of the body is called anatomy
Human anatomy

Human anatomy, which, with physiology and biochemistry, is a complementary basic medical science is primarily the scientific study of the morphology of the adult human body....
.

Antonym

In the views emerging from the mind-body dichotomy
Mind-body dichotomy

The mind-body dichotomy is the view that "mind" phenomena are, in some respects, "non-Matter" . In a religious sense, it refers to the separation of body and soul....
, the body is considered in behavior
Behavior

Behavior or behaviour refers to the action s or reactions of an object or organism, usually in Relational theory to the environment. Behavior can be conscious or Unconscious mind, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary....
 and therefore considered as little valued and trivial. Many modern philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body.

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Regarding corpses