bod'y* The physical or material frame of man; the main portion of the frame

The trunk as opposed to the limbs. A compact organized collection of units. In dentistry, the entire tooth crown. In prosthetic dentistry, the silicious basis of porcelain that is overlaid with enamel. adenoid b. 1. An old term for the prostate. 2. A melanotic tumor, adrenal b's. See suprarenal capsules, under capsule, amylaceous b's, amyloid b's. See amylaceous corpuscle, under corpuscle, antibodies. A collective term for antitoxins and similar products of immunity, bigeminal b's. See corpora quadrigemina, under corpora, b. cavity. See celom a (3d def.). catalytic b's. The ferments, cavernous b's. See corpora cavernosa, under corpora, cell b., cellular b. See under cell, chromatin b's. B's variously described as spherules and as tube-shaped disks found in the network of a cell undergoing karyokinesis. ciliary b. The middle segment of the second or uveal coat of the eye, comprising the ciliary muscle, the ciliary ligament, and the ciliary proce es, colostrum b's. See colustrum corpuscles, under corpuscle, crystalline b. See crystalline lens, under lens, external acce ory olivary b. The external ma of gray matter in the acce ory olivary nucleus, external geniculate b. A projection at the posterior part of the optic thalamus to the outer side of the pulvinar, consisting of alternate layers of white and gray matter, fimbriated b. See corpus Umbriatum, under corpus. foreign b. A b. which has gained entrance into the organism from without, or, having been originally a constituent portion of the organism, has ceased to be so; one that can answer no good purpose in the organism, but is likely to prove a source of irritation, fuchsin b's. See Ru ell's fuchsin b's. ganglionic b's. See nerve cells, under cell, geniculate b. See external geniculate b. and internal geniculate b. hyaloid b. See corpus vitreum. immune b. See amboceptor. inferior olivary b. The olivary b. of the medulla oblong at a, as distinguished from the small group of cells in the pons Varolii having the same name, intermediary b. 1. Situated centrally or in the middle; situated between two bodies. 2. See amboceptor. internal acce ory olivary b. The internal ma of gray matter in the acce ory olivary nucleus, internal geniculate b. A prominent ma of gray and white matter at the lower and outer part of the optic thalamus, with which its gray matter is continuous, internal olivary b. See median internal acce ory olivary nucleus, under nucleus, intra vertebral b. The centrum of a vertebra, laminated amyloid b's. See amylaceous corpuscles, under corpuscle.