Spring, probably represented as Flora

A living ORGANISM is an ORGANization seeking to preserve and replicate "self". Aristotle said of the Universe in general:

" ... All is One
One is All ..."

MENS SANA in CORPORE SANO

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

"DUST to DUST" (RUST)

In mammals, the LIVER is the main ABDOMINAL organ that degrades and generates energy plus 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 go as far back as ZOO and ZEUS.

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

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.

For the ancients, ANIMUS or ANIMA were the SOUL or SPIRIT or HALITUS, to this day seen as the ESSENCE OF LIFE.

There are those who suffer form HALITOSIS, a DEVILish problem considered by some to be the work of MEPHISTOPHELES.

Father Time, Chronos or Saturn

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. Perhaps immortality is reserved only for those who like Ovid created beauty:

" ... NOW STANDS MY TASK ACCOMPLISHED
SUCH A WORK
AS NOT THE WRATH OF JOVE
NOR FIRE
NOR SWORD
NOR THE DEVOURING AGES CAN DESTROY ...
MAY FAME SHALL LIVE TO ALL ETERNITY ...

from OVID [#] in Metamorphoses [13] XV 871