A living body is a durable thing, though the particular tissues that at any one time compose it are not so.
It is, as it were, a quasi-living body, perpetuated by the constant replacement of the component parts, which are destroyed as its normal activities go on.
An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
The condition of being numb; that state of a living bodyin which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
Here ending this general survey of the facts which justify the comparison of a society to a living body; let us look at them in detail.
Both thinkers assume that the organization of a society is comparable, not simply to the organization of a living body in general, but to the organization of the human body in particular.
Thus the distributing apparatus of a society, answers to the distributing apparatus of a living body; not only in its functions, but in its intermediate origin and subsequent position, and in the time of its appearance.
Defn: The condition of being numb; that state of a living bodyin which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
It is not only that universal experience has declared the fact that every skeleton was once part of a living body; it has shown that the very structure and nature of the skeleton implied living body.
Thus the first mode of taking food in a living body so simple can be no other than by absorption or a sort of suction, which is accomplished by the pores of its outer surface.
The hen lays an egg; she cherishes it until a living bodyis formed in the egg, which at length the hen hatches.
The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.
By Mr. Tylor's hypothesis, they first conceived the extremely abstract idea of Life, 'that which makes the difference between a living bodyand a dead one.
Thus the distributing apparatus in a society, answers to the distributing apparatus in a living body; not only in its functions, but in its intermediate origin and subsequent position, and in the time of its appearance.
Here ending this general survey of the facts which justify the comparison of a society with a living body, let us look at them in detail.
We can only look upon a living body as a machine by forming new conceptions of a machine--a machine utterly unmechanical, which is a contradiction of terms.
But what different meanings the two writers aim to convey: Tyndall is thinking of the fact that a living body is constantly taking up new material on the one side and dropping dead or outworn material on the other.
The existence of a thought which is not a function of a living body, and which is not "passive," has been absolutely excluded.
Thus what is Matter relatively to the globe orliving body is Matter already determined by Form if we consider it relatively to its own constituents.
As the embryo grows into the actual living body, so the living body grows into a body exhibiting the actual directing presence of mind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
