Central body

Central body stands for:

• in astronomy for the more massive partner of a two-body problem (especially if the orbit around the common center of gravity lies entirely in its interior).
• in the biology of molting animals such as insects for part of the protocerebrum in the upper pharyngeal ganglion , together with the fungal body , the vertebral bodies and others.

See also

• Centriol
• Centrosome (aka central body)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.