English > physiology: 2 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms. |
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| Category of | abducent, abducting | especially of muscles |
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| abduction | (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body |
| accommodation | (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye |
| acid-base equilibrium, acid-base balance | (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body |
| adaptation | (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light) |
| adducent, adductive, adducting | especially of muscles |
| adduction | (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body |
| afferent | Of nerves and nerve impulses |
| antagonistic muscle | (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another |
| antidromic | Conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal |
| autacoidal | Of or relating to an autacoid |
| automatic, reflex, reflexive | Without volition or conscious control |
| autonomic | relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system |
| autoregulation | (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism |
| contraction, muscular contraction, muscle contraction | (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) |
| control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc |
| efferent, motorial | Of nerves and nerve impulses |
| erectile, cavernous | Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood |
| excitable, irritable | capable of responding to stimuli |
| homeostasis | (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes |
| humor, humour | (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state |
| inhibition | (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part |
| innervate | stimulate to action |
| involuntary | Controlled by the autonomic nervous system |
| irradiation | (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex |
| irritate | excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus |
| isometric | Of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant |
| isotonic | Of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes |
| isotonic | Of two or more muscles |
| localization of function, localisation of function, localization principle, localisation principle, localization, localisation | (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body |
| necrobiosis, cell death | (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) |
| nutrition | (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished |
| parenteral | Located outside the alimentary tract |
| pressor | increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure |
| relaxation | (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers |
| sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli |
| stimulation | (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) |
| summation | (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce |
| sympathetic | Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system |
| tonic | Of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue |
| tumid, erect | Of sexual organs |
| unaerated, unoxygenated | (used of blood) not supplied with oxygen |
| vegetative | Relating to involuntary bodily functions |
| voluntary | Controlled by individual volition |
| Narrower | hemodynamics | The branch of physiology that studies the circulation of the blood and the forces involved |
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| kinesiology | The branch of physiology that studies the mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement |
| myology | The branch of physiology that studies muscles |
| neurophysiology | The branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system |
| Broader | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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| Spanish | fisiología |
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| Catalan | fisiologia |
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| Adjectives | physiologic | of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning |
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| physiological | of or relating to the biological study of physiology |
| Nouns | physiologist | a biologist specializing in physiology |
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