Bodily
adjective
Connected with the human body or an animal's body.
Bodily injuries can be caused by accidents.
Often appears as...
- bodily harm
- bodily injury
adverb
In a way that involves physically moving or carrying something.
He bodily lifted the child and moved her to a safer location.
adjective
Regarding features, functions or actions of a body.
These athletes have superb bodily coordination.
Often appears as...
- bodily features
- bodily functions
adjective
Pertaining to or making physical contact.
Bodily contact sports like rugby can be very challenging.
Often appears as...
- bodily contact
- bodily collision
adjective
Connected with the human body or an animal's body.
Bodily injuries can be caused by accidents.
Often appears as...
- bodily harm
- bodily injury
adverb
In a way that involves physically moving or carrying something.
He bodily lifted the child and moved her to a safer location.
adjective
Regarding features, functions or actions of a body.
These athletes have superb bodily coordination.
Often appears as...
- bodily features
- bodily functions
adjective
Pertaining to or making physical contact.
Bodily contact sports like rugby can be very challenging.
Often appears as...
- bodily contact
- bodily collision
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Pro Tip 1/2Health & Harm
Used to discuss health issues, injuries, or damage to the body.
Bodily health is crucial for a happy life.
Pro Tip 2/2Legality Issues
Often appears in legal contexts relating to physical harm or assault.
The defendant was charged with causing bodily harm.
Pro Tip 1/2Health & Harm
Used to discuss health issues, injuries, or damage to the body.
Bodily health is crucial for a happy life.
Pro Tip 2/2Legality Issues
Often appears in legal contexts relating to physical harm or assault.
The defendant was charged with causing bodily harm.
Pro Tip 1/2Health & Harm
Used to discuss health issues, injuries, or damage to the body.
Bodily health is crucial for a happy life.
Pro Tip 2/2Legality Issues
Often appears in legal contexts relating to physical harm or assault.
The defendant was charged with causing bodily harm.
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Meet the dazzling flying...
what is the minimum number of moving parts needed for controlled flight? Now, there are practical reasons why you may want to know the answer to such a question. Helicopters, for example, are affectionately known as machines with a thousand moving parts all conspiring to do you bodily harm.
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Brain 101 PIPE National...
that help control movement, along with auditory and visual processing; and the medulla oblongata, which creates motor and sensory pathways between the midbrain, the pons, and the spinal cord. Altogether, the parts of the brainstem control vital bodily functions, such as cardiac activity,
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What we know (and don't...
though proper care and rehydration therapy can significantly reduce mortality rates in patients. Fortunately, while Ebola is highly virulent, several factors limit its contagiousness. Unlike viruses that proliferate through small, airborne particles, Ebola only exists in bodily fluids,
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The surprising reason...
that causes much of the discomfort you feel every time you get ill. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work perfectly. Most notably, millions of people worldwide suffer from autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system treats normal bodily cues as threats,
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Chimps have feelings and...
capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued. The detainer is required to bring the detainee in and give a legally sufficient reason for depriving him of his bodily liberty.
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How do your hormones...
by a variety of influences, including the brain and its neurotransmitters, our hormones, and various social factors. The primary function of the endocrine system is to regulate our bodily processes, not control us. Sometimes disease, stress,
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How does your immune...
also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with
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How do your kidneys...
to secrete a hormone called renin that raises blood pressure, and another hormone called erythropoietin, which increases red blood cell production. Without the kidneys, our bodily fluids would spiral out of control.
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What causes opioid...
Opioid receptors also influence everything from mood to normal bodily functions. With these functions, too, opioids’ binding strength and durability mean their effects are more pronounced and widespread
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The Hot Zone: Official...
You brought it back here? It spreads through bodily fluids. When we show each other affection It's learning. It's evolved. It will wipe us out if we don't get ahead of it.
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Meet the dazzling flying...
what is the minimum number of moving parts needed for controlled flight? Now, there are practical reasons why you may want to know the answer to such a question. Helicopters, for example, are affectionately known as machines with a thousand moving parts all conspiring to do you bodily harm.
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Brain 101 PIPE National...
that help control movement, along with auditory and visual processing; and the medulla oblongata, which creates motor and sensory pathways between the midbrain, the pons, and the spinal cord. Altogether, the parts of the brainstem control vital bodily functions, such as cardiac activity,
Video examples
What we know (and don't...
though proper care and rehydration therapy can significantly reduce mortality rates in patients. Fortunately, while Ebola is highly virulent, several factors limit its contagiousness. Unlike viruses that proliferate through small, airborne particles, Ebola only exists in bodily fluids,
Video examples
The surprising reason...
that causes much of the discomfort you feel every time you get ill. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work perfectly. Most notably, millions of people worldwide suffer from autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system treats normal bodily cues as threats,
Video examples
Chimps have feelings and...
capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued. The detainer is required to bring the detainee in and give a legally sufficient reason for depriving him of his bodily liberty.
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How do your hormones...
by a variety of influences, including the brain and its neurotransmitters, our hormones, and various social factors. The primary function of the endocrine system is to regulate our bodily processes, not control us. Sometimes disease, stress,
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How does your immune...
also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with
Video examples
How do your kidneys...
to secrete a hormone called renin that raises blood pressure, and another hormone called erythropoietin, which increases red blood cell production. Without the kidneys, our bodily fluids would spiral out of control.
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What causes opioid...
Opioid receptors also influence everything from mood to normal bodily functions. With these functions, too, opioids’ binding strength and durability mean their effects are more pronounced and widespread
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The Hot Zone: Official...
You brought it back here? It spreads through bodily fluids. When we show each other affection It's learning. It's evolved. It will wipe us out if we don't get ahead of it.
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Grover Norquist
American Politician
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.
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James McAvoy
Scottish Actor
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
What the spiritual investigator has to do to acquire the faculty of looking into the spiritual world consists exclusively of processes of spirit and soul; they have nothing to do with changes in the body, nor with visions arising from an abnormal bodily life.
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Mark Fuhrman
American Public Servant
I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.
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William Banting
English Celebrity
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
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Loretta Devine
American Actress
The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.
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Wilhelm Wundt
German Psychologist
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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Sarah Bernhardt
French Actress
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
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Grover Norquist
American Politician
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.
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James McAvoy
Scottish Actor
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
What the spiritual investigator has to do to acquire the faculty of looking into the spiritual world consists exclusively of processes of spirit and soul; they have nothing to do with changes in the body, nor with visions arising from an abnormal bodily life.
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Mark Fuhrman
American Public Servant
I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.
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William Banting
English Celebrity
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
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Loretta Devine
American Actress
The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.
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Wilhelm Wundt
German Psychologist
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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Sarah Bernhardt
French Actress
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
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