Body
With attention to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" generally is acclimated in affiliation with appearance, health issues and death. The abstraction of the apparatus of the physique is physiology.
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Human body
The beastly physique mostly consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs, as able-bodied as abundant centralized agency groups such as respiratory, circulatory and a axial afraid system.
Variations
The asleep physique of a human is referred to as a cadaver, or corpse. The asleep bodies of vertebrate animals, insects and bodies are sometimes alleged carcasses. The abstraction of the anatomy of the physique is alleged anatomy. A carcase is the physique of a collapsed animal, afterwards the abatement of offal, that is to be acclimated as meat.1
Antonym
In the angle arising from the mind-body dichotomy, the physique is advised in behavior and accordingly advised as little valued2 and atomic in allegory to mind, spirit or soul. Materialist philosophers of apperception advance that the apperception is not something abstracted from the body, but is produced by physiological functions of the brain.3
See also
- Regarding corpses
References
- ^ Delbridge, Arthur, The Macquarie Dictionary, 2nd ed., Macquarie Library, North Ryde, 1991
- ^ 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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