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Body

The principal part of anything as distinguished from its subordinate parts, as in the main part of an instrument. An individual, an organization, or an entity given legal recognition, such as a corporation or "body corporate." A compilation of laws known as a "body of laws."

BODY. A person.
2. In practice, when the sheriff returns cepi corpus to a capias, the plaintiff may obtain a rule, before special bail has been entered, to bring in the body and this must be done either by committing the defendant or entering special bail. See Dead Body.

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This result suggests that the decrease rate of the intensity value by the black body cavity is constant even when the illuminance incident on the cracked area changes and shows that the approximation of the intensity reduction function obtained inductively is done well.

A Study on Crack Depth Measurement in Steel Structures Using Image-Based Intensity Differences. (Research Article)

The whole airport security mania is largely symbolic, and body cavity searches would upset far more people than they would reassure - so in this case, common sense trumps "security".

Body searches only way..

(11) The Talmud defines pregnancy in three trimesters in which the uterus ascends in the body cavity and then descends to prepare forgiving birth.

Healing in Luke, Madagascar, and elsewhere

Remove any excess fat from body cavity and neck skin.

Dickensian goose is good for a gander; Alan Smith ditches Scrooge for a scrumptious take on the traditional festive feast

Coarsely chop the claw and leg meat and return it to the shell of the body cavity. Liberally spoon some of the rouille sauce on top of the lobster halves.

Lobster Rouille

After a prolonged body cavity search by her father's Secret Service detail, Tina greets Vice Dad, who, wink wink, says he didn't mean her, adding that he's got people who will do nuptials in his private bunker/wedding chapel.

Give me an L

I will have done all this and much more in order to deliver to you, dear reader, the essence, the core, the man behind the man behind the curtain, the shriveled little homunculus piloting with mischievous glee screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's fat, balding, shamefully inadequate body--that bad marionette, that leaking bag of bones and flesh who once wrote something hailed as "startlingly original" (1999's Being John Malkovich) but whose cremaster has apparently reeled his creative balls so far into his body cavity that he is, pre sently, choking on them.

Survival of the fattest: Andrew Hultkrans on Adaptation. (Film)

This sound occurs as air escapes through openings in the body cavity, much like boiling kettle whistles.

The darling decapod: "it wasn't a rock; it was a rock lobster" the B-52's

At the other end of the continuum is the more intrusive body cavity search.

Strip searches

With the hand in the operative field, the surgeon can identify and move structures, explore the body cavity, facilitate dissection, and guide laparoscopic instruments.

HAL hand access system. (Minimally Invasive Surgery Products)

With Applied Medical's HAL, a special port is affixed to the patient so that surgeons can insert their hand into the operative field through a small incision which allows them to identify and move structures, explore the body cavity, facilitate dissections, guide laparoscopic instruments, and suture and remove specimens.

Applied Medical gets FDA marketing clearance for hand-access laparoscopic device