The Collaborative International Dictionary
Physiologist \Phys`i*ol"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. physiologiste.] One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.
Wiktionary
n. A person who studies or specializes in physiology.
WordNet
n. a biologist specializing in physiology
Wikipedia
Originally, Physiologist was an ancient collection of stories about nature, which probably appeared in Alexandria in 200 - 300 A.D. The ancient Russian Physiologist in its 15th-century version is a translation from Bulgarian. The Bulgarian version, in turn, was translated from Greek in the 11th - 12th century. Physiologist contains information on animals and birds (lion, eagle etc.), mythical creatures ( phoenix, centaur, siren etc.), stones, and trees. The stories are accompanied by commentaries in the spirit of medieval Christian symbolism. The images from the Physiologist found reflection in the old Russian literature, iconography, and book ornamentation.
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Usage examples of "physiologist".
Berlin, the greatest anatomist and physiologist among my contemporaries, had barely affirmed he had seen a live centaur, I should certainly have been staggered by the weight of an assertion coming from such an authority.
Some physiologists suppose that the cerebellum is the source of that harmony or associative power which co-ordinates all voluntary movements, and effects that delicate adjustment of cause to effect, displayed in muscular action.
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.
By some physiologists these bodies are considered as the nuclei, or vital points, of the medulla oblongata.
The glandular hairs of ordinary plants have generally been considered by physiologists to serve only as secreting or excreting organs, but we now know that they have the power, at least in some cases, of absorbing both a solution and the vapour of ammonia.
CHAPTER IV MAGENDIE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES It may be doubted whether any physiologist has ever lived whose cruelty to animals exceeded that which, for a long period, was exercised by Franc,ois Magendie.
Klein, a physiologist, before the Royal Commission, testified that he had no regard at all for the sufferings of the animals he used, and never used anaesthetics, except for didactic purposes, unless necessary for his own convenience, and that he had no time for thinking what the animal would feel or suffer.
Flourens, the eminent French physiologist, tried the effect of chloroform on inferior animals, and in consequence of its powerful and fatal influence on them, put it aside as an anaesthetic.
So long as half his subjects are tainted with charlatanerie and the other half with hysteria we physiologists must content ourselves with the body and leave the mind to our descendants.
Anatomists, pathologic-anatomists, physiologists and cytologists still worked on the mummy.
Some of his experiments excited a strong feeling of abhorrence, not in the public merely, but among physiologists.
It is possible that not more than half a dozen English physiologists at that time were making experiments on living animals.
We hold that no man except a skilled anatomist and a well-informed physiologist has a right to perform experiments on animals.
Most physiologists believe that in irritable plants the excitement is transmitted along, or in close connection with, the fibrovascular bundles.
He was not a botanist, or an agronomist, or a plant physiologist, or a hydroponicist, or an anythingist, reallynot on paper, anyway.