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Body
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. 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. Human bodies have four tissue types: muscle, epithelium, connective tissue and nervous tissue.
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