Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts.
- noun All the functions of a living organism or any of its parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A treatise on physiology or the functions of living organisms.
- noun l. Natural philosophy.
- noun The sum of scientific knowledge concerning the functions of living things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
- noun A treatise on physiology.
- noun the science of the functions and phenomena of the mind, as distinguished from a philosophical explanation of the same.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A branch of
biology that deals with thefunctions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved. - noun obsolete The study and description of natural objects;
natural science .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun processes and functions of an organism
- noun the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your species assumes that your physiology is the pinnacle of evolution.
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Your species assumes that your physiology is the pinnacle of evolution.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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On whatever ground we term physiology, science, psychology is entitled to the same appellation; and the method of investigation which elucidates the true relations of the one set of phenomena will discover those of the other.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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It might well be that investments and actions based on the scientific understanding of what I call the physiology of the planet are the key to human welfare in the 21st century.
Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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He's a�physiologist at Cambridge University, and he received the prize in physiology and medicine for his work on in-vitro fertilization.
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He's a�physiologist at Cambridge University, and he received the prize in physiology and medicine for his work on in-vitro fertilization.
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The mechanisms of how mindfulness alters brain and body physiology is under investigation by labs around the world, but preliminary findings demonstrate changes in brain function and structure, immune cytokines, stress hormones and gene expression patterns, to name a few.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.: Mind Body Medicine: Can What You Think and Feel Affect Your Physical Health? Ph.D. Susan Smalley 2010
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These changes in physiology, initiated by the autonomic nervous system, are reliable predictors that a man is about to get violent, but normally go unnoticed unless the man is trained to pay conscious attention to these reactions.
Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010
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Learning about something's physiology is very helpful to most people regardless of how they use the information.
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Learning about something's physiology is very helpful to most people regardless of how they use the information.
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