Body

A body is part of a system living or not. It forms a Ensemble small Sous-ensemble S, which collaborates within the same territory to achieve a function , to see several. This definition does not prejudge quality of the service brought by the body: it can perfectly badly fulfill the function, or worse to have an useless function, even harmful.

The duality body-function was the object of Polémique S violent and exceeded today (finally, almost…) between different Design S from the Life.
Parmi the various theses involved, one will note:

  • the thesis of ad hoc construction (the life is the work of an architect, which very envisaged and, in particular a body for each function and, a function for each body)
  • the thesis of the very flexible adaptation (with a need a function is associated, and the function creates the body)
  • the modern thesis of the evolution (the body available fulfills the function more or less well, and by selection the most powerful bodies spread; the function does not create the body, it selects it)
  • Aujourd'hui, the function is not looked any more like a preexistent concept, but like a sometimes useful element and sometimes not according to the context.

The bodies are associated in systems , which fill a unit of complementary functions and in interaction (example: the nervous system, the cardiovascular system).

Animal body or Vegetable

Subset of a complex living organism. A body is a whole of cell S alive coming from different embryologic lines and which collaborate within the same territory in order to provide one or more particular functions in this organization.

Bodies of the human body by area

Area of the head and the Neck

dorsal Area and marrow

Thorax

Abdomen

Basin

Members

Physiological functions

Bodies human

Bodies of provisioning

Bodies of consumption

Bodies of elimination

Not-classified bodies (for the moment)

Bodies of the plants

Artificial body

Manufactured by the man

  • Apparatus intended to replace a body at an living being.

  • Subset of a Apparatus lage, composed of several assembled parts, intended to carry out a particular operation or a specific work.
    • Mechanical (“transmission”, Automobile body of mechanics )
    • Electric (body of order) Interruptory, Regulating.

Virtual bodies

By extension, one will speak about body within the framework of the human organizations (example: press agency).

See too

External bonds

  • the human body and the bodies

Simple: Organ (anatomy)

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