"living substance" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a substance that is alive and organic, such as bacteria or plant matter. For example, you could say "The bacteria is a living substance that is crucial for a healthy environment."
"A cell," she wrote, "is a minute portion of living substance".
For example, the term 'animal' has the sense "living substance", which is inherently general, and it refers to each individual animal since each is a living substance as Abelard puts it, since each has the status of being a living substance.
In the case of other animals it is the animal itself, the living substance, that is the subject of the act of existence, and both soul and body have existence through the substance.
Extremes of politics and disparity may continue to divide us and modern technology may isolate us with our own devices; yet we are all secretly connected and each a part of the living substance of creation.
The accompanying paper [ 97] starts with Darwin's famous notion that emergence of living substance anew is extremely unlikely because "...at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed [ 286]".
There is little room for ideological back-and-forth when children are seen as hideous enemies from a horror film: "I was like a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping; a cud made of a living material that continually amalgamated and softened its living substance to allow two greedy bloodsuckers to nourish themselves, leaving on me the odor and taste of their gastric juices.
Possible evidence for the milk kinship hypothesis is to be found in the composition of breast milk, which is composed of living substances such as stem cells or substances that can affect epigenetic regulation such as microRNAs.
He needs to learn to live substance-free, and the team isn't going to be able to help him do that now.
He followed Hopkins too in asserting that the crucial question no longer was the relationship of living and non-living substance but also of mind and body, with biochemistry conceding to philosophy and the then incipient neurosciences, the latter question, so that it could focus on learning about living matter.
Much less is known about barriers to primary health care for people living with substance use issues, despite the fact that mental health and substance use conditions often co-occur.
A Modern-Day Guide to Living with Substance and Style," by Allison Samuels, a Daily Beast senior writer, who looks to the White House for guidance.
