生体(せいたい)

せいたい
noun
living body; organism
formaltechnicalsciencehealth
1. living body; living organism
A living body or organism, as opposed to a dead one or to non-living matter; mostly in scientific and medical compounds.
To study the mechanisms of living organisms.
To investigate how a drug works inside the body.
Biometric authentication using fingerprints or faces is more convenient than passwords, but it is not necessarily completely safe.

Formal and technical; almost always in compounds.

Common collocations

  • 生体(せいたい)認証(にんしょう): biometric authentication
  • 生体(せいたい)内(ない): inside the body (in vivo)
  • 生体(せいたい)肝移植(かんいしょく): living-donor liver transplant
  • 生体(せいたい)反応(はんのう): vital reaction (in forensic medicine)

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Several words read せいたい: 生態(せいたい) (ecology, way of life), 声帯(せいたい) (vocal cords), 整体(せいたい) (manipulative therapy).