physiology
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Noun (2)physiologies
- the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organismsType of biology, biological scienceKinds hemodynamics, myology, neurophysiology, kinesiology
- processes and functions of an organismType of bodily property
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Translations
Noun branch of biology
- Spanish
- fisiología
- French
- physiologie
- German
- Physiologie
- Italian
- fisiologia
- Portuguese
- fisiologia
- Turkish
- fizyoloji
- Russian
- физиоло́гия fiziológija
- Chinese
- 生理学 shēnglǐxué
- Japanese
- 生理学 seirigaku
- Dutch
- fysiologie
26 more languages
- Polish
- fizjologia
- 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
- Czech
- fyziologie
- Danish
- fysiologi
- Esperanto
- fiziologio
- Estonian
- füsioloogia
- Finnish
- fysiologia
- Georgian
- ფიზიოლოგია piziologia
- Hebrew
- פִיזְיוֹלוֹגְיָה fizyológya
- Icelandic
- lífeðlisfræði
- Latvian
- fizioloģija
- Lithuanian
- fiziologija
- Norwegian
- fysiologi
- Romanian
- fiziologie
- Serbo-Croatian
- fiziologija
- Slovak
- fyziológia
- Swahili
- fiziolojia
- Welsh
- ffisioleg
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
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