physiology

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It might well be that investments and actions based on the scientific understanding of what I call the physiology of the planet are the key to human welfare in the 21st century.

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  1. noun The biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts.
  2. noun All the functions of a living organism or any of its parts.

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  • Pregnant women are at more risk than others because their physiology is altered.
  • And we had no information on his physiology, which is not of a human form with which we are familiar. —  Maverick, Isaac Asimov's Robots And Aliens -- Book 5
  • My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • There is a physiology, a psychology and a spirituality that Africa delivers to the African across the globe whether you embrace it or not. —  Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
  • If they are not beneficial for your physiology, they all should die in order to restore your health. —  Emaxhealth
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diaphragma · magnocellular · fasciculus · parvicellular · fastigial · emboliform · palpebrae · corticopontine · geniculocalcarine · supratentorial · dorsolateral

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  1. Formerly also phisiologie; from French physiologie, = Spanish fisiología = Portuguese physiologia — Italian fisiologia, from Latin physiologia, from Greek φυσιολογία, natural philosophy, from φυσιολόγος (later L. physiohgus), discoursing of nature, as a noun a natural philosopher, from φύσις, nature (see physic), + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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