human body
Americannoun
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human bodies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of human body
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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His lab identified it years ago as one of the thousands of peptides that act as chemical messengers in the human body, one he believed might someday have therapeutic uses for humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
More research will be needed to determine whether the laboratory findings reflect what happens in the human body.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
It is a collision between the demands of her job and some of the deepest machinery in the human body.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Her hands, while confined within the mountain’s outline, are the only other discernible part of a human body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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