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For other uses, see Body (disambiguation).

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. Plants 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 (human) or cadaver. The dead bodies of vertebrate animals and insects are sometimes called carcasses, and dead viruses are called ghosts.

The human body consists of a head, neck, trunk, two arms, two legs and the genitals of the groin, which differ between males and females.

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 members, 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 ecology within the body. We are made up of trillions of microbes. It is beneficial to keep the balance of good guys greater than their opponents.

Injury

Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical.

See also

• Physical body, Battery, Bodily harm, Disability, Disease, Emergence, Healing, Health, Human physical appearance, Human body, Microtrauma, Trauma
  • Regarding corpses: Burial, Cremation, Death, Embalming, Mummy, Necrophilia, Respect for the dead, Dead bodies and health risks
• Body Farm

Books

• Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, 2., revised ed., New York, N.Y : Basic Books, 1992
• Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, 2004, Penguin Books Ltd., UK (ISBN 0141007451)
• Jessica Snyder Sachs, Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death (ISBN 0738207713)

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