bod'y

[A.S. bodig.] Corpus, soma. i. The trunk as distinguished from the head and extremities. 2. The material part of man, as distinguished from the mind. 3. The principal ma of any structure. 4. thing, a substance. 5. In dentistry the inner portion of an artificial tooth beneath the vitreous surface. (For terms not found here, see the qualifying word or under corpus.) allox'ur b., xanthin* base, hra 'y b., a dark-colored erythrocyte containing a malarial parasite, brown b., black* spore. «il'iary b., the ciliary proce es and muscles taken collectivelj'. dead b., corpse, demilune' b., see demilune, dentic'ulate b., fascia dentata hippocampi [BNA]. elemen'tary b., platelet. epithe'lial b., parathyroid, fat b. of the cheek, corpus adiposum buccse [BNA]. fat b. of the or'bit, corpus adiposum orbitee [BNA]. for'eign t., anything in the ti ues or cavities of the body that has been introduced there from without, and that is not absorbable, fuch's in b., Ru ell's* body, gla b., see demilune* body: inclu's ion b., nucleoid, lentic'ular b., nucleus dentatus [BNA]. no-thresh'old b., a substance i n the blood plasma, the presence of which gives rise to no symptoms, ol'ivary b., oliva. pampin'iform b., epoophoron [BNA], paranu'clear Ta., attraction sphere, perine'al b., the ti ues between rectum and vagina in the female perineum, pitu'itary b., hypophysis cerebri, po'- lar b., one of two minute globular ma es in the ovum, expelled at the time of impregnation. rice b., corpus oryzoideum.