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BODY SUBSTANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The substance of the body
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("body substance" is a kind of...):
substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body substance"):
solid body substance (the solid parts of the body)
bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)
chromatin; chromatin granule (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
achromatin (the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes)
linin (an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended)
ground substance; intercellular substance; matrix (the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded)
humor; humour ((Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state)
Holonyms ("body substance" is a part of...):
body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
