main body

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Specialized proteins carry these barcodes from the neuron's main body to the synapse, the point where two neurons meet.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

The main body of the show, mounted in capacious glass cabinets, is organized around his most notable books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

"The idea is that the bats that are in the main body of the church will live in here, rather than in the church itself," he explains.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

Firefighters had anticipated that the blaze would eventually move in this direction and reiterated that the main body of the fire remained inside primary containment lines and that things were still going as planned.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall