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Body of Lies (film)
Body of Lies is a 2008 American espionage thriller directed by Ridley Scott, based on David Ignatius's novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA operative hunting terrorists in Jordan.
Body of Proof
Body of Proof is an American medical crime drama on ABC (2011–2013), created by Christopher Murphey, starring Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, a former neurosurgeon turned Philadelphia medical examiner; 42 episodes, 3 seasons.
Body painting
Body painting is the temporary application of paint or pigment to the human body for art, ritual, performance, or camouflage, lasting from hours to weeks before washing off.
Body piercing
Body piercing: insertion of an ornament into a tissue perforation for decorative, cultural, or spiritual reasons. Ancient practice (46,000-year-old Australian nose ornament, Varna gold earrings), revived in 1970s California by Jim Ward; infection is the main risk; professional practice requires sterile needles and implant-grade jewelry.
Body plan
Body plan (Bauplan): the fundamental structural features defining an animal phylum, shaped by Hox genes and conserved phylotypic stages, originating in the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation and constrained by developmental pleiotropy.
Body plethysmography
Body plethysmography is a pulmonary function test in which the patient breathes inside a sealed cabin, measuring thoracic gas volume and airway resistance; a complete study takes under 20 minutes.
Body positivity
Body positivity: social movement advocating acceptance of all body types, rooted in 1960s fat acceptance and fat Black women's activism, mainstreamed via 2010s hashtags like #bodypositive; experimental evidence on its social media content is mixed.
Body proportions
Body proportions: the size relationships among human body parts, expressed in art as head-height multiples (adults 7.5–8 heads, children fewer), traced from Egyptian grids and Polykleitos through Vitruvius and Leonardo's Vitruvian Man to modern 3D anthropometry.
Body roundness index
Body roundness index (BRI), an anthropometric measure from waist circumference and height introduced by Diana Thomas in 2013, models the body as an ellipse, scores eccentricity 1–20, and predicts visceral fat, metabolic syndrome, and mortality.
Body shape
Body shape: the form and fat/muscle distribution of the human body, also called somatotype (Sheldon's endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph). Measured by BMI, waist circumference, WHR, WHtR, ABSI; fat distribution affects cardiometabolic risk and varies by ancestry.
Body Size
Body size is the set of physical measurements of a body, chiefly height, weight, and derived circumferences and ratios like BMI, used to assess growth, nutritional status, and fatness.
Body skin hyperlaxity due to vitamin K-dependent coagulation factor deficiency
Body skin hyperlaxity due to vitamin K-dependent coagulation factor deficiency (OMIM 610842, ORPHA91135), also called the PXE-like disorder with multiple coagulation factor deficiency, is an autosomal recessive GGCX-related disease combining severe truncal and limb skin laxity, PXE-like elastic fiber mineralization, and deficiency of vitamin K-dependent clotting factors II, VII, IX, and X.
Body Snatchers (1993 film)
Body Snatchers (1993) is Abel Ferrara's 87-minute horror-science-fiction film, the third adaptation of Jack Finney's novel, set on an Alabama army base, starring Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, and Forest Whitaker, released by Warner Bros.
Body snatching
Body snatching: secret removal of corpses from graves for sale to medical schools, also called resurrectionism. Flourished 17th–early 19th centuries, ended in Britain by the 1832 Anatomy Act after Burke and Hare.
Body surface area
Body surface area (BSA) is the total surface area of the human body, usually estimated from height and weight and used for drug dosing and burn assessment.
Body surface gastric mapping
Body surface gastric mapping (BSGM) is a noninvasive electrophysiological method recording the stomach's electrical activity from an array of abdominal electrodes, assessing dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting, and gastroparesis.
Body Surface Potential Mapping
Body surface potential mapping (BSPM), also called body surface mapping, records cardiac electrical potentials from 64–300 torso electrodes, far beyond the 12-lead ECG, offering richer spatial diagnostic information but remaining largely a research and ECGI tool.
Body swap appearances in media
Body swap appearances in media: the body-swap trope in film, TV, and animation, from Vice Versa (1882) and Freaky Friday to Big, Face/Off, Your Name, and Freaky, covering swap mechanisms, subgenres, and criticism.
Body Temperature
Body temperature: the heat measure of the human body, with core temperature regulated by the hypothalamus at roughly 36.5–37.5 °C. Covers Wunderlich's 37 °C standard, site-specific normal values, and peripheral thermometer accuracy.
Body to Body (song)
"Body to Body" is BTS's 2026 opening track on the album ARIRANG, produced by Diplo, Ryan Tedder, the Picard Brothers, and Pdogg, interpolating the Korean folk song Arirang; reworked from a sexual "Body on Body" concept into a stadium anthem inspired by the 1988 Seoul Olympics theme "Hand in Hand".
Body water
Body water, also known as total body water, is the water contained in a living organism, averaging about 60% of body weight in adult men and 50% in women.
Body Weights and Measures
Body Weights and Measures is a MeSH descriptor (D001837) under Anthropometry indexing body measurement topics such as BMI, height, weight, waist circumference, and skinfold thickness, and the standardized anthropometric practice those terms cover.
Body Worlds
Body Worlds (Körperwelten) is Gunther von Hagens' traveling exhibition of real plastinated human bodies, first shown in Tokyo in 1995, with over 58 million visitors in 42 countries and a registered body donation program.
Body-centered cubic
The body-centered cubic (BCC) structure is a crystal structure in which atoms sit at the eight corners of a cube plus one at its center, common in metals.
Body-focused repetitive behaviour disorders
Body-focused repetitive behaviour disorders (BFRBDs, ICD-11 6B25) are an obsessive-compulsive-related diagnostic category covering trichotillomania, excoriation disorder, and related grooming behaviors, defined by recurrent integument-directed actions, failed stop attempts, and dermatological sequelae.
Body-on-frame
Body-on-frame, also called separate or ladder chassis, is a vehicle construction method where a separate steel frame carries the mechanics and a distinct body is bolted on top.
Body-relative direction
A body-relative direction (egocentric direction) is a spatial direction such as left, right, or behind, defined relative to the axes of a body, usually a human body, rather than fixed world features.
Bodyarmor SuperDrink
Bodyarmor SuperDrink (BODYARMOR) is an American sports drink founded in 2011 by Mike Repole and Lance Collins, known for coconut water, potassium-heavy electrolytes, and Kobe Bryant's 2013 investment; Coca-Cola bought the remaining 85% for $5.6 billion in 2021.
Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding: a judged physique sport of maximal muscle size, symmetry, and low body fat, founded by Eugen Sandow (first contest 1901), with Mr. Olympia since 1965, volume-load-driven hypertrophy training, and drug-tested natural federations.
Bodybuilding nutrition
Bodybuilding nutrition is the dietary practice used in bodybuilding to build muscle in a bulking phase and lose fat while retaining muscle when cutting for a contest.