What is "physiological"

Usage examples of "physiological".

It has called attention to mental and bodily unities, has served as a guide to explain the physical and psychical characteristics of individuals, and has been instrumental in applying physiological and hygienic principles to the habits of life, thus rendering a service for which the world is greatly indebted.

While in theory excretion may be regarded as a distinct physiological act, it is, in fact, leaving out the work of the lungs, but a phase of the work of glands.

The physiologist might assert the necessary seclusion of physiological experimentation, or he might construe the question in a literal sense as pertaining merely to the locking of his inner door.

If, since the discovery of anaesthesia over sixty years ago, there has been painful physiological experimentation in England, in America, or on the Continent of Europe, IT HAS BEEN BAD EXPERIMENTATION.

America a stranger would be welcomed at any physiological laboratory when experimentation by students was going on, although of course there are times when there would be no trouble in obtaining admittance.

The limit of such physiological experiment, in its utmost latitude, should be to establish truth in the hands of a skilful experimenter, and not to demonstrate it to ignorant classes and encourage them to repeat it.

No physiological abnormalities were found, but there was no serotonin in his brain at all, no beta-endorphin, and no trace of another substance, an enzyme called mono amine oxidase.

I have tried to identify biochemical, morphological and physiological changes occurring in specific regions of the chick brain m the minutes to hours following training on a simple task, to show that the changes are not the results of other aspects of training than memory, to show that blocking the changes prevents the memory, and vice versa, and, finally, to examine the consequences of removing the brain sites of change, either before or after the chick has been trained.

It was a large effect, specific, reproducible and, above all, very amenable to physiological - and later biochemical, pharmacological and morphological - investigation.

In that case the process, the seepage, is perhaps preconceptual, physiological, glandular.

And so even though we can achieve physiological reanimation, the mind-ah-the mind is not always reanimated with the body.

It should be noted first that the smut fungus is living at the expense of its host plant, the wheat, and its effect on the host may be summarized as follows: The consumption of food, the destruction of food in the sporulating process, and the stimulating or retarding effect on normal physiological processes.

But under smirk and wig and tiara is the body with its unsharable physiological processes, is the psyche with its insights and sudden graces, its abysmal imbecilities and its unavowable desires.

In the normal person, all the physiological processes are in their nature unhistorical and incommunicably non-social.

Some physiological observers have remarked that among the more highly organized species of animals the creature struggles against the ligatures previous to a second operation more than it did at its first experience.