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BODILY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or relating to a physical material body
Example:
bodily existence
Classified under:
Similar:
corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)
Derivation:
body (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
Example:
a somatic symptom or somatic illness
Synonyms:
bodily; corporal; corporeal; somatic
Classified under:
Similar:
physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to or belonging to the body
Example:
bodily functions
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
body (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
Derivation:
body (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In bodily form
Example:
he was translated bodily to heaven
Classified under:
Pertainym:
bodily (of or relating to or belonging to the body)
Context examples:
Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms.
(Hypochondriasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
These interactions play a role in signal transduction, which influences bodily functions including salivation, lacrimation, urination, digestion and defecation.
(Muscarinic Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)
I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And he and Redruth backed with a great heave that sent her stern bodily under water.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
For I hold with the learned Scotus that thought is in very truth a thing, even as vapor or fumes, or many other substances which our gross bodily eyes are blind to.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The bodily region or diagnosis from which pain is felt.
(Pain Origin, NCI Thesaurus)
The bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.
(Perilymph, NCI Thesaurus)
The examination of variables concerning organism or bodily functions.
(Physiologic Testing, NCI Thesaurus)
Inhaled nanoparticles can cross the lungs, entering the bloodstream, and accumulate in blood vessels and other bodily sites vulnerable to cardiovascular disease.
(Nanoparticles raise vascular risk by escaping the lungs, SciDev.Net)
Procedure using suction, usually with a thin needle and syringe, to remove bodily fluid or tissue.
(Aspiration, NCI Thesaurus)
