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  2. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Parts-per-million cube of relative abundance by mass of elements in an average adult human body down to 1 ppm. About 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Only about 0.85% is composed of another five elements: potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium ...

  3. Pancha Bhuta - Wikipedia

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    Below table gives a reference on what component of the human body is associated with these elements. Each of the five fingers in humans is also associated with a particular element, so this means the energy associated with the appropriate element can be channelized through various hand mudras. [4]

  4. Body shape - Wikipedia

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    Body shape has effects on body posture [30] and gait, and has a major role in physical attraction. This is because a body's shape implies an individual's hormone levels during puberty, which implies fertility, and it also indicates current levels of sex hormones. [1] A pleasing shape also implies good health and fitness of the body. Posture ...

  5. Human body - Wikipedia

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    Human anatomy is the study of the shape and form of the human body. The human body has four limbs (two arms and two legs), a head and a neck, which connect to the torso. The body's shape is determined by a strong skeleton made of bone and cartilage, surrounded by fat (adipose tissue), muscle, connective tissue, organs, and

  6. Human anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Gross anatomy has become a key part of visual arts. Basic concepts of how muscles and bones function and deform with movement is key to drawing, painting or animating a human figure. Many books such as Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form, are written as a guide to drawing the human body anatomically correctly. [4]

  7. Anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Anthropometry involves the systematic measurement of the physical properties of the human body, primarily dimensional descriptors of body size and shape. [ citation needed ] Since commonly used methods and approaches in analysing living standards were not helpful enough, the anthropometric history became very useful for historians in answering ...

  8. Human physical appearance - Wikipedia

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    Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Image of a European female (left) and an East Asian male (right) human body seen from front (upper) and back (lower). Adult human bodies photographed whose naturally-occurring pubic, body, facial, but not head hair have been deliberately removed to show anatomy.

  9. Category:Body shape - Wikipedia

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    Human body weight (5 C, 25 P) O. Obesity (11 C, 74 P) S. ... Pages in category "Body shape" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.