Sentence examples for body is understood from inspiring English sources

The lived body is understood in terms of its practical engagement with the world.

Furth argues that the human body is understood as androgynous before the development of gynecology in the Song dynasty.

The 'natural' body is understood to have developed mechanisms that motivate eaters to seek out energy-dense foods, a hardwiring that is maladaptive in today's plethoric food environment.

That the body is understood, depicted and (it is hoped) cared for in molecular terms in nutritional epigenetics is part of the broader 'molecularization' of biology over the past 100 years (De Chadarevian and Kamminga, 1998; Rose, 2006).

Physiological changes to the aging body are understood to adversely affect the timely elimination of blood ethanol after consumption, with decreases in body water, hepatic function, and blood flow all implicated.

Because of their starlike appearance when discovered, the largest of these bodies were termed asteroids, and that name is widely used, but, now that the rocky nature of these bodies is understood, their more descriptive name is minor planets.

Bodies were understood to be both fat and to experience generative difficulties as a result of humoural imbalance.

Bodies were understood as composed of four humours – blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm – which had four qualities – hot, dry, cold and wet.

Generally, the three bodies' approach explains how bodies are understood and how different meanings are attached to the bodies, what is regarded as acceptable or unacceptable in the society, and the power and control exercised on the body.

In particular, fat bodies were understood to divert resources (blood and nutrition) from both the production of generative materials and the nourishment of a conception in the womb during gestation to the further augmentation of the fat, thereby constructing such bodies as inherently unable to fulfil their generative or maternal role.

During discussions with the governing body iIt is understood Durham were encouraged to identify individuals with a connection to the north-east who may be able to help steer them to a more secure future.