Physiology

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The study and description of natural objects; natural science.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "Your species assumes that your physiology is the pinnacle of evolution."
    cross-reference
    anatomy  biology  mental physiology  
    Hypernym
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    bodily property  
    Rhyme
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    Egyptology  Scientology  anesthesiology  anthology  anthropology  
    Same Context
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    anatomy  archæology  biochemistry  biology  ecology  
    Synonym
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    aerobiology  agrobiology  anatomy  astrobiology  bacteriology  
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