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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Physiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on physiology published by the American Physiological Society and the International Union of Physiological Societies . Before August 2003, it was named News in Physiological Sciences . The current editor-in-chief ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE human ▪ Knowledge of human physiology would enable witnesses of the bump to predict the appearance of the bruise. ▪ It seems that for every additional piece of knowledge we acquire about human physiology and disease, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "study and description of natural objects," from Middle French physiologie or directly from Latin physiologia "natural science, study of nature," from Greek physiologia "natural science, inquiry into nature," from physio- "nature" (see physio- ) ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Physiology \Phys`i*ol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Physiologies . [L. physiologia, Gr. ?; fy`sis nature + ? discourse: cf. F. physiologie.] The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved. 2 (context obsolete English) The study and description of natural objects; ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms processes and functions of an organism

Usage examples of physiology.

One may safely assert that not a single recent graduate from any Medical College in America, not a single student of physiology in any institution of learning in our land to-day, has ever been told that the practice of animal experimentation was once thus regarded by a large majority of the English-speaking members of the medical profession.

Mind-Body Medical Institute, showed that experienced meditators could produce dramatic changes in their physiology while meditating.

The future of anatomy and physiology, as an enthusiastic micrologist of the time said, was in the hands of Messrs.

It must be remembered that both for husband and wife in most cases monogamic life marriage involves an element of sacrifice, it is an institution of late appearance in the history of mankind, and it does not completely fit the psychology or physiology of any but very exceptional characters in either sex.

They quantified this by studying the physiology of monozygotic twins and comparing it to the general population.

Ive spent the entire night studying their morphology and physiology, and other than that slight difference in electrolytes I detected when we were on the planets surface, Ive found nothing to account for their deaths.

If you are somewhat familiar with humanoids, then why can you not use your superior intellect to learn their morphology and physiology?

The external environment in such a view is the cause, the evolved morphology, physiology, and behavior of the organism is the effect, and natural selection is the mechanism by which the autonomous external cause is translated into the effect.

It follows that the considerable genetic variation for morphology and behavior that is actually observed in nature either is without any effective consequence for the general physiology and metabolism of the organisms or has consequences that vary idiosyncratically from individual to individual or from one environmental context to another in such a way as to make no average difference.

Gordon went on for five minutes about the physiology of the spleen and the new drug somatostatin, which could close a pancreatic fistula in days.

Lokos was a wealthy man, employed a large retinue of servants and saw to it that every minute his apprentices were not eating, sleeping or devoting to duties in shop, workrooms or garden, they were reading his extensive collection of works on pharmacology, human and animal physiology, differing theories respecting the treatment of wounds, injuries and illnesses, horticulture of herbs and a vast array of other interrelated subjects.

At such a time, reflect on how your bliss is made paradoxically possible by precisely those features of your physiology that distinguished your remote ancestors as they languished in harems, or as they rotated among promiscuously shared sex partners.

But if you go to a healer when you are suffering from vague, undiagnosed complaints, she might be able to reach into your past and send you healing information that you can incorporate into your physiology in a health-promoting way.

About two years ago, our Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals became possessed of the knowledge that it was still the practice in the schools of Anatomy and Physiology in France for lecturers and demonstrators to tie down cats, dogs, rabbits, etc.

Experiments on animals are in no way indispensable to completely efficacious instruction in physiology.