A living ORGANISM is an ORGANization seeking to preserve and replicate "self". It is "selfish", in biologic terms, to think that it is equivalent to "same". It is self-evident that no individuals are ever, strictly speaking, "the same", even a few moments later. In biologic terms, "self" is "alike", but never identical. Provocatively, "sam" and "samota" in Ukrainian means alone, loneliness, but not identity. More important is to realize that each ORGANISM is ONE, an indivisible "oneness". Aristotle, the father of Biology, said of organisms, life, the Universe, and, perhaps, God:   

 

Thus, it may be said that ALL organs and functions of an organism are parts of ONE, thus, "mind and body" are one, as denoted by the old dictum:

Regarding organ, orgasm, orgy, climax, and climb, these are subjects for another time.

HEALING, HEALTH, SANITY, SALUBRITY, and DISEASE share ideas relating to HOMEOSTASIS. HOMEO is for "similar" and STASIS for "stable". Organic organisms seek to maintain and to recover their balance as quickly as possible from being buffeted by hostile environmental factors. OXYGEN, among other factors, OXIDIZES or degrades organic matter as in;

While ALIVE, organisms seek to remain "alike" (not identical). When reproducing, organisms PROCREATE "near sameness". To surVIVE and reproduce, genetic stability and ability to capture energy are key.

In mammals, the LIVER is the main ABDOMINAL organ that degrades and generates energy and heat from the METABOLISM of nutrients. Humans capture or abduct food from organisms they eat, that is, digestive structures of other organisms that ABDUCTed food into their ABDOMEN. From Ukrainian and Spanish we get ZHYVIT, ZHYVE, ZHYTO, VIENTRE, VIENTO, VENTRAL, BARRIGA for abdomen, living, wheat, wind, and barrel. Some abdomens are indeed like a pouch and "a bag of winds".

METABOLISM and BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS describe the processes of energy capture, transfer or assimilation, and excretion or elimination. Regarding energy "abduction", living organisms are more efficient than "dead" systems because of ZYMES or ferments, or ENZYMES. Enzymes accelerate chemical reactions. These ideas are enriched by those implicit in ZOO and ZEUS.

The LIVER acts as the central OVEN that generates HEAT or CALORIES by enZYMAtic reactions. In Ukrainian, PECZ, PECZE, and PECZINKA are for OVEN, BAKE or BURN, and LIVER, and CALOR denotes HEAT.

The liver METABOLIZES, ANABOLIZES, and CATABOLIZES nutrients and other particles. META is for "move through", "pass a goal" as in METAPHOR, METASTASIS, ANA is for "divide", "degrade", or "cut" as in ANATOMY, and CATA is for "to fall", "degrade", "eliminate" or excrete as in CATASTROPHE. BOLIC or BOLUS denote a ball, lump, or gulp.

ANABOLISM denotes assimilation of nutrients from digested or broken down foods. CATABOLISM denotes the breakdown of altered or aging body tissues destined for excretion. Failure of these mechanisms is CATAstrophic to the organism.

The liver enzymes require OXYGEN used for oxidation. A LEAF is like a mini LUNG that captures OXYgen. Mammals, instead of LEAVES, have reSPIRatory systems and LUNGs that capture oxygen ions. From Ukrainian, Greek, and Latin we get LEKHKI, LEKHNI, PNEUMO, PULMO and PLEURO for light, slight, lung, and side as in PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCUS, PULMONARY, and PLEURISY. Shortness of air or breath and pain in the side are SYMPTOMS and SIGNS of pneumococcal pneumonia and pleurisy.

In Latin VEGETARE or VEGETUS denote respiration or to "enLIVEN". Note, however, that VEGETATION VEGETATEs in contrast to ANIMALS who LIVE, because they have a SPIRit or HALITUS. When a person ceases to inspire, it becomes "expired" or DECEASED and considered to have lost its spirit, soul, or PSYCHE. Final fate can sometimes be cheated. Those who are reVIVEd should inSPIRE JOVIAlity, an idea also found in Sanskrit as JIVAS for ALIVE.

Unfortunately, all mortals are subject to SATURN or CHRONOS. Indeed, time alters or MUTATES everything, including the human GENOME. Gradual accumulation of genetic MUTATIONs is the essence of aging, SENILITY, CANCER, and many "deGENErative" disorders including infertility and abortions. Only humans aspire to immortality and can, to some degree, achieve such by creating beauty, as Ovid did and who ended his "Metamorphoses" (13 - XV, 871) with;