BODY SUBSTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body substance mean? 

• BODY SUBSTANCE (noun)
  The noun BODY SUBSTANCE has 1 sense:

1. the substance of the body

  Familiarity information: BODY SUBSTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY SUBSTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The substance of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("body substance" is a kind of...):

substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body substance"):

solid body substance (the solid parts of the body)

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

chromatin; chromatin granule (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)

achromatin (the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes)

linin (an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended)

ground substance; intercellular substance; matrix (the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded)

humor; humour ((Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state)

Holonyms ("body substance" is a part of...):

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))

 Context examples 

Exposure from touching an object, person, or body substance contaminated with a suspected or confirmed infectious agent.

(Physical Contagion Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

Any procedure that involves testing or manipulating a sample of blood, urine, or other body substance in a laboratory setting.

(Laboratory Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

The body substance in which tissue cells are embedded.

(Ground Substance, NCI Thesaurus)

An artifact resulting from the contamination of the imaging field with an extraneous body substance.

(Body Substance Contamination, NCI Thesaurus)

A body substance containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals produced by the mammary glands of mature female bovines.

(Cow Milk, NCI Thesaurus)

An active natural, synthetic or semi-synthetic ingredient including endogenous body substance that is intended to furnish pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure or any function of the human body, but does not include intermediates used in the synthesis of such ingredient (21 CFR 314.3(b)).

(Pharmacologic Substance, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)