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With regard to Living Things , a body is the integral '''physical''' material of an individual, and contrasts with Soul , Personality and Behavior .
In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as Hair may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as Stool , both while residing in the body and afterwards.
Plant s composed of more than one Cell are not normally regarded as possessing a body.

"Body" often is used in connection with Appearance , Health issues and Death .
The body of a dead person is also called a corpse, for Human s, or '''cadaver'''.
The dead bodies of Vertebrate animals and Insect s are sometimes called carcasses, and dead Virus es are called '''ghosts'''.

The Human Body consists of a Head , Neck , Trunk , two Arm s, two Legs and the Genitals of the groin, which differ between Male s and Female s.

The study of the working of a body is Anatomy .

A body is also a held-together collection or group of physical objects or abstract ideas and, in particular, an Organisation of such.
The whole is more than the simple sum of the individual Member s, because the whole contains, in addition, Information about the relationships among the Elements of the whole. The body of evidence is a phrase which defines the sum total of all knowledge or '''evidence''' of some thing.

Body Ecology focuses on the interactions among animals and various microbes living inside them.


Injury


Injury is Damage or harm caused to the Structure or Function of the body caused by an outside Agent or Force , which may include physical or Chemical .


See also



Regarding corpses:



Books

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, 2., revised ed., New York, N.Y : Basic Books, 1992

  • '', 2004 , Penguin Books Ltd., UK (ISBN 0141007451)

  • Jessica Snyder Sachs, ''Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death'' (ISBN 0738207713)