Physiological
[,fɪzɪə'lɒdʒɪkəl] or [,fɪzɪə'lɑdʒɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to the biological study of physiology; 'physiological psychology'; 'Pavlov's physiological theories' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.
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Examples
- What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A peculiar physiological effect of the X-Rays is their capacity to produce a severe effect on the skin, somewhat resembling sunburn. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Of course, the same hardening of the organic conditions affects the physiological structures which are involved in thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There can be no doubt of the tendency of organic plasticity, of the physiological basis, to lessen with growing years. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These devices were essentially toys, depending for their successful operation (as is the case with motion pictures) upon a physiological phenomenon known as persistence of vision. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hence arises a new branch of natural science, physiological psychology, or, as Fechner (1860), the disciple of Weber, called it, psycho-physics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Here, in the first place, is the physiological principle on which I am acting, stated by no less a person than Dr. Carpenter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And to it, as well as to life in the bare physiological sense, the principle of continuity through renewal applies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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