Sir Andrew Huxley, a British scientist from an illustrious family whose boyhood mechanical skills led to a career in physiology — "the mechanical engineering of living things," he called it — and a Nobel Prize for explaining the electrical basis of bodily movement, died on Wednesday.
On the radio, they said that a science-fiction author named Vernon Bodily had died.
It has always been that way, but some people have to die bodily to find out.
I read the text, which said, among other things, that according to popular legend when Apollonius, a holy man and miracle worker of some sort who was born around the beginning of the Christian era, died he ascended bodily to Heaven.
The abbreviations used in the manuscript are summarized: BP: bodily pain; DIE: deep infiltrating endometriosis; GH: general health; MCS: mental component summary; MH: mental health; PCS: physical component summary; PF: physical functioning; RE: role emotional; RP: role physical; QOL: quality of life; SF: social functioning; SF-36: short form 36; VAS: visual analogue scale; VT: vitality.
Symptoms included high fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding from bodily orifices; most of those infected died within one week.
It seems especially difficult to comprehend the final disappearance, the bodily vanishing, of many of those who died.
The "dialogues" implicitly begin with nonnegotiables -- "Given that Jesus died on the cross and was bodily resurrected into heaven.
The disease is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or someone who has died of the disease.
Her mother, after all, had died of the disease, developing psychosis and slowly losing her bodily control and her mind.
