With regard to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The study of the workings of the body is physiology.
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Human body
Main article: Human bodyThe human body mostly consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs, as well as numerous internal organ groups such as respiratory, circulatory and a central nervous system.
Variations
The dead body of a human is referred to as a cadaver, or corpse. The dead bodies of vertebrate animals, insects and humans are sometimes called carcasses. The study of the structure of the body is called anatomy.
Antonym
In the views emerging from the mind-body dichotomy, the body is considered in behavior and therefore considered as little valued[1] and trivial in comparison to mind, spirit or soul. Materialist philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body, but is produced by physiological functions of the brain.[2]
See also
- Anatomy
- Antibody
- Body Art
- Battery
- Bodily harm
- Body image
- Body (metaphysics)
- Body painting
- Disability
- Disease
- Emergence
- General Fitness Training
- Healing
- Health
- Human physical appearance
- Human body
- Microtrauma
- Physical body
- Trauma
- Regarding corpses
References
- ^ The mind-body problem by Robert M. Young
- ^ Kim, J. (1995). Honderich, Ted. ed. Problems in the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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