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Definition of Adult body
1. Noun. The body of an adult human being.
Specialized synonyms: Adult Female Body, Woman's Body, Adult Male Body, Man's Body
Terms within: Bush, Crotch Hair, Pubic Hair
Group relationships: Adult, Grownup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adult Body
Literary usage of Adult body
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"A physiological not a morphological conception.—New fundamental law required.— Composition
of adult body.—Neuro-epithelial syncytium and free-living cells. ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"Between the process of invagination just described and the formation of the adult
body, various other formative processes take place, but these apparently ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"We may next ask : Does this addition also satisfy the facts we find in the adult
body where the cells come to rest unless they are called into active growth ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the adult body in a state of health the income of matter balances as nearly
as possible the expenditure, and therefore the weight of the body and its ..."
5. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1876)
"Hence it may be stated that the adult body requires an average minimum daily ...
and hence we may the requirements of the adult body daily at 2(10 grains ..."
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