"distinct body" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific entity (e.g. group, individual, or organization) which is distinct from other similar entities. For example: "The local community is composed of many distinct bodies, each of which has a unique role in the neighbourhood."
It's not a great amount, but it's enough to be growing into a distinct body of work.
A distinct body reorientation strategy during steering tasks has been reported in young adults.
Gupta, V. et al. Divergence in gene repertoire among reference Prevotella genomes derived from distinct body sites of human.
Decapods have three distinct body regions, each made up of segments, or somites: the head, thorax, and abdomen.
The activity of policing preceded the creation of the police as a distinct body by thousands of years.
To demonstrate the adaptability of the system, Hecker pulled up a collection of a dozen Spore creatures on his monitor, each with a strikingly distinct body architecture.
Recovery levels were categorized according to distinct qualitative morphological recovery stages which are linked to distinct body score ranges/levels (see Fig. 2).
Table 3 Counts of total, intra-niche, and inter-niche HGT events detected in mixed gene sets comprising genomes from only two distinct body sites.
As a result of the Hijrah, another distinct body of Muslims came into being, the anṣār ("helpers"); they were the Medinese who aided Muhammad and the muhājirūn.
The army's first engineer officers were appointed by George Washington in 1775, and in 1802 the Corps of Engineers was created as a permanent, distinct body.
The distinct body of water towards the top right part of the image is Taatsiin Tsagaan Lake, one of the four saline lakes that make up the Valley of the Lakes.
