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The thing that carries your personality around and occasionally sends it the bill.
means The physical structure of a person, animal, or thing — flesh and bone, or just the main mass of something.
from Traces back to Old English 'bodig,' meaning the trunk of a person or animal — and oddly, it has no confirmed relatives in other Germanic languages, which makes its deeper roots a genuine mystery. Over time it widened from just the torso to the whole physical self, then stretched further to mean the main part of anything — a body of water, a body of text, a car body.
- cell turnover
- most cells replace themselves within about 7 to 10 years
- bone count shift
- babies have 300 bones, adults only 206
- water content
- roughly 60 percent of adult body weight is water
- skin is organ
- largest organ in the body, not makeup, actual organ