The idea is that all these people together make up one "body" called "the Church".
The body of a relation is sometimes called its extension.
The body of a dead person is also called a corpse or cadaver.
If this is the case then the two bodies are called quasi-identical.
The presiding officer and the defense lawyer even argued about what the body of rules should be called.
A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus.
The body of precedent is called "common law" and it binds future decisions.
Hence, no person was elected at the special session of the representative body called for that purpose.
It's caused by natural chemicals in the body called prostaglandins.
It works by blocking the action of a substance in the body called cyclo-oxygenase.