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physiology |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Physiology \Phys`i*ol"o*gy\, n.; pl {Physiologies}. [L. physiologia, Gr ?; fy`sis nature + ? discourse: cf F. physiologie.] 1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to and characteristic of life. Note: It is divided into animal and vegetable physiology, dealing with animal and vegetable life respectively. When applied especially to a study of the functions of the organs and tissues in man, it is called human physiology. 2. A treatise on physiology. {Mental physiology}, the science of the functions and phenomena of the mind, as distinguished from a philosophical explanation of the same From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: physiology n 1: the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms 2: processes and functions of an organism
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