Question about Eucharist Theology Term

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As I understand it, the Catholic Church believes that the Eucharistic bread is the body and blood of Christ, and that the wine also is the body and blood of Christ. This is an explanation for why one can take only the bread or only the wine at communion but still receive both, and is in contrast to the idea (declared a heresy) that the bread is only the body and the wine is only the blood.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to do some research on this topic. But I keep being confounded by a problem that stands in the way of properly researching it: I cannot figure out what is the name of this doctrine (that the bread is both body and blood and the wine is also both body and blood). Anyone know? I feel a bit dumb asking for this, but I can’t figure out what the belief is actually called.
 
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I’m not sure if the doctrine has a name. The Church accepts Jesus words “this is my body” and “this is my blood.” Still Jesus in the Eucharist is undivided. He is whole and entire under either species, in a unitary manner. The word for the concept is “concomitance.” Where his body is, so also is his blood, and vice-versa.
 
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