physiology

Noun
US[fiz-ee-ah-luh-jee]/ˌfɪziˈɑlədʒi/5 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)physiologies

  1. the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organismsType of biology, biological scienceKinds hemodynamics, myology, neurophysiology, kinesiology
  2. processes and functions of an organismType of bodily property
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Translations

Noun branch of biology

Italian
fisiologia
Portuguese
fisiologia
Turkish
fizyoloji
Russian
физиоло́гия fiziológija
Chinese
生理学 shēnglǐxué
Japanese
生理学 seirigaku
26 more languages
Swedish
fysiologi
Greek
φυσιολογία fysiología
Korean
생리학 saengnihak
Indonesian
fisiologi
Hungarian
élettan
Portuguese (PT)
fisiologia
Chinese (Trad.)
生理學 shēnglǐxué
Albanian
fiziologji
Catalan
fisiologia
Danish
fysiologi
Esperanto
fiziologio
Estonian
füsioloogia
Finnish
fysiologia
Lithuanian
fiziologija
Norwegian
fysiologi
Romanian
fiziologie
Serbo-Croatian
fiziologija
Swahili
fiziolojia

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

phys′i·ol′o·gy (fĭz′ĭ-ŏl′ō-jy̆), noun; pl. Physiologies (#).

Origin: L. physiologia, Gr. φυσιολογία; φύσις nature + λόγος 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.

☞ 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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