Human Body

  

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Human Body

Definition: Human Body

Human Body

Noun

1. Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Human Body

Synonyms: anatomy (n), bod (n), build (n), chassis (n), figure (n), flesh (n), form (n), frame (n), material body (n), physical body (n), physique (n), shape (n), soma (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Human Body

Specialty definitions using "human body": Abida, Abraxas Stones, absorbed power, active implantable electromedical device, active implantable electromedical equipment, active implantable medical deviceÆlurusall-that, Amino Acids, Essential, ANTHROPOLOGIST, PHYSICAL, Anthropometric measurements, approved dosimetric service, average absorbed powerBardesanists, Bartonella quintana, behavioral science, behavioral sciences, behavioural sciences, Biologic indicators of exposure study, Body Temperature Changes, Body Weights and Measuresclo, cooling power, cosmetic product, counterpressure, crime laboratory analyst, CYTOTECHNOLOGISTdisplay model, DOCTOR, NATUROPATHIC, doctor, osteopathic, dynamic response indexEndocrine disruptor, Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, EutrophicationFood-borne illnesses, foot-to-head accelerationhistologis, HISTOPATHOLOGIST, hyperventilation syndromelongitudinal vibrationmedical technologist, microbiolog, metabolization, MICROBIOLOGY TECHNOLOGIST, minus g, Monophysites, MORGUE ATTENDANTNatural Medicine Path, negative goccupational physiology, operative temperature, organ dose, osteopat, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANPathological Conditions, Anatomical, permanently implanted, police chemis, Polycletus, push-buttonRadioisotopes, Reactive Oxygen Species, regional vibration, Reproductive and Urinary Physiologysegmental vibration, Skin Physiology, Somatostatin, Spiritual Medicine Path, story, substitution medicinevertical vibrationWhole-body counter, Whole-Body Counting, whole-body monitors, window model, work physiologyz-axis vibration, Zenith. (references)

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Modern Usage: Human Body

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

101 Things Removed From the Human Body (2003)

The Human Body (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Human Body

DomainTitle

Books

  • Atlas of the Human Body (reference)

  • Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body (reference)

  • Eyewitness: The Human Body (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Intimate Universe - The Human Body (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Human Body

Illustrations:
Human Body

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Computer Images:
Human Body

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Photo Album: Human Body

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Not all the iron present in foods can actually be absorbed and used by the human body. Now a simple, inexpensive cellular model system that simulates digestion and nutrient absorption has been developed at the U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory in Ithaca, New York. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

[Skeletal structure of the human body with attention to hand and foot]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[The human body and the library as sources of knowledge]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Anatomy of the human body, rear view]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Plants of medicinal value to particular human body parts]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Human body found at Pompei. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Human Body

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Walt Whitman

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Human Body

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the ivy is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Human Body

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Once away from the human body, mites do not survive more than 48-72 hours. (references)

Rod-like structures in every cell of the human body. Chromosomes carry genes. (references)

Yellow-colored substances produced by the human body as a by-product of digestion. (references)

Minorities

Zimbabwe

Gordon Chavanduka, chairman of ZINATHA, the national association of traditional healers, reportedly stated that black-market demand for human body parts used in making potions has increased greatly in recent years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Human Body

Expression using "human body": disposal of a removed part of the human body. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Human Body

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

human body

2,741

how many bones are in a human body

24

human body picture

335

human body inside out

24

anatomy of the human body

289

draw the human body

23

human body part

226

human body structure

22

diagram human body

198

muscle in the human body

22

human body system

151

human body pic

21

muscle of the human body

94

human body chart

21

bones human body

81

human body art

19

human body organs

62

human body water

18

drawing the human body

52

human body image

16

human body photo

44

human body cell

16

human body temperature

35

human body skeleton

15

anatomy picture human body

31

atlas of the human body

15

bones in the human body

29

clipart human body

12

female human body

28

human body illustration

12

human body painting

28

human body digestive system

11

picture of human body part

26

a look inside the human body

11

human body for kid

25

picture of human body organs

11

human body fact

24

information about the human body

10

human body lesson plan

24

how much blood in the human body

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Human Body

Language Translations for "human body"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

, 人" . (various references)

   

Danish

  

humane legemsprodukter anvendt udelukkende til videnskabelige formål (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gebruik van produkten uit het menselijk lichaam uitsluitend voor wetenschappelijke doeleinden (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ihmisruumis, ihmisravinto. (various references)

   

French

  

utilisation d'une partie du corps humain prélevée (disposal of a removed part of the human body), utilisation des produits du corps humain aux seules fins scientifiques (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

   

German

  

Verwendung menschlicher Körperprodukte zu rein wissenschaftlichen Zwecken (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χρήση προϊόντων σώματος ανθρώπου αποκλειστικά για επιστημονικούς σκοπούς (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

emberi test (clod, flesh, flesh and blood). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

人" (looks, personal appearance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じ"たい (ligament). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umanhay odybay

   

Scottish

  

clisneach (a bar-gate, the human body). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

uso de productos del cuerpo humano con fines exclusivamente científicos (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

användning av produkter från den mänskliga kroppen för strikt vetenskapliga syften (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Human Body

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-h-m-n-o-u-y"

-3 letters: abound, dynamo, maundy.

-4 letters: abmho, abohm, anomy, bandy, bayou, bound, bunya, dauby, douma, dunam, handy, honda, hound, human, maund, monad, mound, mynah, nomad, yamun.

-5 letters: ahoy, ambo, band, baud, body, bond, bony, bund, buoy, damn, daub, doby, dona, doum, duma, dumb, habu, hand, homy, hoya, hymn, mano, many, maud, maun, mayo, moan, mony.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Human Body


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 75 6D 61 6E      42 6F 64 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#117 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#100 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0075 006D 0061 006E      0042 006F 0064 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4287796780236817091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese;
Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
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Grieks, Griek, ‏الإغريقي, ‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek;
Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
Skots, skocez, шотландски, 苏 兰, skotský, Schots, skotskur, skotlantilainen, écossais, schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, skót, skozur, scozzese, 스"틀랜", Albinagh, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, escocés, skotsk, iskoçyalı, шотланський, шотландці, шотландський діалект, for Scottish;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;