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(Latin: body, bodies)
(Greek: tissue [web]; beam or warp of a loom; hence, that which is woven; a web or tissue; used in the sense of pertaining to [body] tissue)
(Greek: high, highest, highest point; top, tip end, outermost; extreme; extremity of the body)
(Greek: spider; the arachnoidea; when used in medicine this Greek element refers to a membrane, veins, or any web-like structure in the body)
(Greek: mucus; a slippery protective secretion that is produced in the linings of some organs of the body by the mucous membranes and glands)
(more and better sterilization of body parts is essential to successful body transplants)
(Latin: brain; that part of the brain that is concerned with the coordination of body movements)
(Greek > Latin: shell, sea shells; shell-like bone or cavity of the body)
(Greek > Latin: trunk of a tree or body)
(Latin: band, bandage; bundle, bunch; used in the extended sense of "pertaining to the fascia", a band or sheet of fibrous tissue providing a subcutaneous covering for various parts of the body)
(Latin: pipe; an abnormal passage or communication, usually between two internal organs, or leading from an internal organ to the surface of the body)
(Latin: rein, bridle, a bit (as in a horses mouth); by extension, a medical term for a connecting fold of membrane in the body)
(Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553)
(The human body is at the edge of human comprehension with its microcosmic mysteries and its 100 trillion cells!)
(electronic chips are being placed under the skins of people and animals)
(Trying to find solutions to two life-robbing diseases: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's)
(Greek: health, healthy, healthful, wholesome, sound [in body])
(Greek > Latin: groin, flank, lower part of the body; gut, bowels, abdomen, loins)
(Latin: funnel; literally, "the [little] thing into which something is poured"; a funnel-shaped organ of the body)
(Latin: a bug; literally, "cut into," from insectum, with a notched or divided body; literally, "that which is cut up, segmented" [as the bodies of the first invertebrates to which the term was applied or appeared to be])
(Greek: the soft part of the body between the ribs and the hip, flank, loin; denotes the flank or loins and the abdominal wall or a part of the abdomen)
(Latin: light, shine; torch, lamp; heavenly body)
(Greek: water, yellowish fluid; connected with, or containing, lymph, a transparent fluid that is derived from body tissue and conveyed to the bloodstream by the lymphatic vessels)
(Latin: opening or passageway in the body, bodily opening or canal; or to go, to pass; a passage)
(Greek: melos, limb, body extremity or member; a condition of the limbs or extremities of a body; such as, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes, etc.)
(Greek meniskos > Latin meniscus: a crescent-shaped body, a curved structure, lunar crescent form, semilunar cartilage; diminutive of mene, "moon")
(Greek: upraised, high up; in the air; anything raised from the ground, high, lofty; hovering in the air; hence, "heavenly body, atmospheric phenomenon")
(Greek: mucus; a protective secretion from the mucous membranes in the nose, throat, and lungs; a thick fluid produced by the linings of some tissues of the body and is secreted as a protective lubricant coating by cells and glands of the mucous membranes)
(Greek: lipoid substance (containing or resembling fat) sheathing certain nerve fibers; lipoid substance found in body tissue)
(Greek: uncleanness of body or mind; filth; defilement; anything disgusting)
(Greek: dead, death, dead body; dead tissue or cells; corpse)
(Latin: wall [of a house], walls; used in the extended sense of "the walls of a cavity or organ of the body")
(Latin: basin; basin-shaped structure of the body)
(an artificial substitute for a missing part of the body)
(Latin: flesh, meat, fleshy parts of the body; fruit pulp; used mostly in reference to the tissue that exists in a tooth)
(Greek: rump, bottom; rear end; behind part; the posterior or back part of the body)
(something that comes in two basic gender formats, but in billions of shapes and forms)
(Latin: healthy, whole; by extension: cure, heal, take care of; sound in mind and body)
(Latin: pertaining to, or having scurvy [a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C in the body, characterized by weakness, anemia, spongy gums, bleeding from the mucous membranes, etc.])
(Latin: tallow, suet, fat, fatty; grease; by extension, "pertaining to a suetlike secretion of the body")
(Greek > Latin: dried up, withered, mummy; the bony and some of the cartilaginous framework of the body of animals; including humans)
(Greek: ball, round, around; globe, global; body of globular form; by extension, circular zone, circular area)
(Greek > Latin: that which binds tightly, press together; band, lace; hence, muscle that closes an aperture of the body; a ringlike band of muscle fibers that constricts a passage or closes a natural orifice)
(Greek: young branch, shoot; thallus, a simple-plant body with undifferentiated root, stem, and leaf)
(Greek: thorax, chest [part of the body between the neck and the abdomen; "breastplate, breast, chest"])
(the "tongue" term may be applied to both a body part in the mouth and an extensive reference to "language")
(Latin: stomach, belly or a relationship to the abdomen or the front or anterior aspect of the body)
(Latin: covering for the body, clothes)
(Latin: internal organs; all that is under the skin, all parts in the body except flesh or muscles; entrails; any large interior organ in any of the three great cavities of the body; specifically, those within the chest; such as, the heart or lungs; or in the abdomen; such as, the liver, pancreas, and intestines; and in the head; such as, the brain)
Word Entries containing the term: “body
anulus ciliaris, ciliary body
A thickened portion of the vascular tunic of the eye between the choroid and the iris.

It consists of three parts or zones: orbiculus ciliaris, corona ciliaris, and ciliary muscle.

This entry is located in the following units: annul-, anul- (page 1) -ulus, -olus, -ulum, -ola (page 1)
autotopagnosia, body-image agnosia
1. The inability to recognize or correctly orient the parts of one's own body.
2. The inability to localize and name the parts of one's own body; finger agnosia would be autotopagnosia restricted to the fingers.
3. A disorder of the body image, because of a lesion of the parietal cortex in the nondominant hemisphere or organic brain damage, characterized by an inability to relate the parts of one's own body to extrapersonal space often with the consequent loss of topographical orientation.

Sometimes the affected individual is also unable to identify and interrelate to the parts of the body of another individual or even with a model.

This entry is located in the following unit: auto-, aut- (page 21)
body cavity (s) (noun), body cavities (pl)
There are two major body cavities: the dorsal cavity and the ventral cavity, which are spaces within the body that contain and protect internal organs.

These two cavities are defined in their alphabetical positions in this unit.

This entry is located in the following unit: Medical Terms and Their Essential Word Parts (page 1)
body plethysmograph (s), body plethysmographs (pl) (nouns)
A body area that is used to measure lung volume and pressure.

This body plethysmograph device is used for studying alveolar pressures, lung volumes, and airway resistance. The patient sits or reclines in an airtight compartment and breathes normally.

The pressure of the body plethysmograph changes in the alveoli (tiny sac for holding air in the lungs) when it is alternated by the direction of motions in the compartment and are recorded automatically.

body type
A somewhat old-fashioned term used to classify the human shape into three primary types: ectomorphic (a lean, only slightly muscular body with long limbs), mesomorphic (a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures; including bone and muscle and connective tissue; with pronounced muscular development and low body fat), or endomorphic (characterized by big bones, round face, large trunk and thighs and a naturally high degree of body fat; especially, around the midsection).
This entry is located in the following unit: typo-, typ-, -type (page 2)
cadavericole (verb), cadavericoles; cadavericoled; cadavericoling: dead body
Inhabiting or living in a dead body; also eating dead bodies or carrion: "Max could see the maggots, cadavericoling a dead chicken's body by the side of the path as he was going for a walk."
carotid body
1. A flat structure at the bifurcation (forked or divided into two parts or branches) of the common carotid artery.

It contains cells that respond to changes in oxygen concentration in the blood and to changes in blood pressure.

2. A small structure containing neural tissue at the bifurcation (two branches) of the carotid arteries.

It monitors the pressure and oxygen content of the blood and, therefore, it assists in regulating respiration or breathing.

This entry is located in the following unit: carotid-, caroti-, carotio- (page 1)
carotid-body reflex
1. A normal chemical reflex initiated by a decrease in oxygen concentration in the blood and, to a lesser degree, by increased carbon dioxide and hydrogen ion concentrations that act on chemoreceptors at the bifurcation of the common carotid arteries.

The resulting nerve impulses cause the respiratory center in the medulla to increase respiratory activity.

This entry is located in the following unit: carotid-, caroti-, carotio- (page 2)
carotid-body tumor (s) (noun), carotid-body tumors (pl)
A benign round, firm growth which develops at the bifurcation (two branches) of the common carotid artery or either of the two arteries located in the front of the neck, through which blood from the heart goes to the brain: "A carotid-body tumor may cause dizziness, nausea, and vomiting if it impedes, or hinders, the flow of blood and if pressure is increased in the vascular system, or the circulatory system that transports blood in the body and which is composed of the heart, arteries, capillaries, and the veins."
This entry is located in the following units: carotid-, caroti-, carotio- (page 2) tum-, tume-, -tumescence (page 1)
human body (s) (noun), human bodies (pl)
Physical beings which are made up of systems that consist of organs, of tissues, and of cells.
This entry is located in the following units: homo-, hom-, hum- (page 2) Quotes: Human Body (page 1)
oliva (s), olivae (pl); olivary body
An oval body located behind the anterior pyramid of the medulla oblongata and consisting of a convoluted sheet of gray matter enclosing white matter.
This entry is located in the following unit: olive- + (page 1)
Quotes: Human Body
Something that comes in two basic gender formats: human body quotes.
This entry is located in the following unit: Quotes: Quotations Units (page 4)
rigid body, rigid-body motion, rigid-body dynamics
1. In mechanics, a body which does not change its shape or size regardless of the force applied to it; that is, the relative position of its component particles is absolutely fixed in positon relative to each other.
2. An actual body whose behavior approaches that of an ideal rigid body; such as, a steel beam.
3. An idealized extended solid whose size and shape are definitely fixed and remain unaltered when forces are applied.

The rigid body assumption is a mathematical convenience that is useful and gives correct results for many important phenomena.

Skeleton: a bunch of bones with the person's body deleted.
tongue, a body part
1. A muscular organ on the floor of the mouth which aids in chewing, swallowing, and speech, and is the location of the taste buds, the organs of the sense of taste.

The taste buds are located in the papillae (puh PILL ee), which are projections, or bumps, on the upper surface of the tongue that sense flavors; such as, bitter, sweet, salty, and sour.

2. The movable fleshy organ attached to the bottom of the inside of the mouth of humans and most animals, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and, in humans, speech.

As stated previously, the tongue is a strong muscle anchored to the floor of the mouth. It is covered by the lingual membrane which has special areas to detect tastes.

The tongue is attached to the lower jaw and to the hyoid bone (a small, U-shaped bone that lies deep in the muscles at the back of the tongue) above the larynx.

Again, as defined above, on the top surface of the tongue there are small nodules called papillae that give the tongue its rough texture.

Between the papillae at the sides and base of the tongue, there are small bulb-like structures that are the taste buds. The muscle fibers of the tongue are heavily supplied with nerves.

The tongue aids in the formation of the sounds of speech and coordinates its movements to aid in swallowing.

The adjective for tongue is "lingual"; so, the papillae of the tongue are the lingual papillae.


This entry is located in the following unit: Tongue: Body Part and Language (page 1)
vitreous humor, vitreous body
1. The transparent, jellylike material that fills the eyeball between the retina and the lens.
2. The transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.

The vitreous humor contains very few cells; mostly phagocytes which remove unwanted cellular debris in the visual field), no blood vessels, and 99% of its volume is water with salts, sugars, and a network of collagen fibers with hyaluronic acid accounting for the rest; however, the vitreous has a viscosity two to four times that of pure water, giving it a gelatinous consistency.

Hyaluronic acid is a complex viscous substance that lubricates joints in the body and is present in connective tissue. It also plays a role in the healing of wounds.

This entry is located in the following units: humid-, humor- + (page 2) vitreo-, vitre-, vitr- + (page 2)
(the structure of organisms from the smallest components of cells to the biggest organs and their relationships to other organs especially of the human body)
(the relative locations of sections of the body, or bodily organs, and their actions and activities)
(a radiographic technique that produces an image of a detailed cross section of bodily tissue using a narrow collimated beam of x-rays that rotates in a full arc around a patient to image the body in cross-sectional slices)
(there are certain anatomic terms which present various situations; for example, a body part may be horizontal, as opposed to vertical; in front as opposed to being behind or at the back; above as opposed to being under, etc.)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “body
bead gland, pearl body
One of a heterogeneous group of food bodies with a pear-like luster and high concentration of lipids, apparently used by plants to attract and support ants.
This entry is located in the following unit: Ant and Related Entomology Terms (page 4)
Body Systems or Anatomy
Body Systems and terms.
This entry is located in the following unit: Index of Scientific and Technological Topics (page 1)
Body Transplants: Problems Still Exist
More and better sterilization of body parts is essential to successful body transplants unit.
Medical Orientation Words with Reference to the Body

Medical references as related to the body or anatomy.

This entry is located in the following unit: Index or Menu of Various Topics (page 1)
pearl body, bead glands
One of a heterogeneous group of food bodies with a pearl-like luster and high concentration of lipids (fatty acids), apparently used by plants to attract and to support ants.
This entry is located in the following unit: Ant and Related Entomology Terms (page 15)
Tongue: Body Part and Language
The "tongue" term may be applied to both a body part in the mouth and an extensive reference to "language" unit.