生理机能：指身体内部进行的自然生理过程，尤指排泄固体或液体废物。
bodily function //
可数名词 A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate. 身体功能
The child was not able to speak, walk properly or control bodily functions.
这个孩子不能说话，不能正常行走或控制大小便。
an organic process that takes place in the body
同义词： bodily process / body process / activity
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... 2.at times 有时；偶尔 3.when it comes to 当提到；就……而论 4.bodily function 身体机能 ...
Breathe: Breathing is an unique bodily function.
呼吸：呼吸是一种独特的机体功能。
The heart performs a vital bodily function.
心脏起著维持生命的重要作用。
So my death occurs at star two, loss of bodily function.
我的死亡就发生在星号二，生理功消失时。
And so the food is a broader constituent of what we consume; the nutrient will be the pieces of the food that affect bodily function.
所以食物的概念要比吃的东西更加广泛,食物中的营养素影响着我们的人体机能
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So my death occurs at star two,loss of bodily function.
我的死亡就发生在星号二，生理功消失时。
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A nutrient is considered a substance within the food, that's when it digests it, absorbs, promotes some bodily function, so that it has some metabolic health value when people consume it.
营养素是包含在食物中的物质,由人体消化,吸收,推动身体机能,食品必须具有值得人类去代谢的健康价值
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That's because lactation is probably the only bodily function for which modern medicine has almost no training, protocol or knowledge.
As Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, notes, the broader question raised by Seasonale is whether suppressing menstruation is merely a lifestyle choice or, rather, whether it is more like turning a normal bodily function into a medical complaint.
But research in recent years has shown an increasingly complex picture in which the bugs play significant roles in several critical bodily systems, having already been implicated in obesity, asthma, and liver function.