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- noun Plural form of
physiology .
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Examples
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Balzac left off to some extent, though never entirely, those miscellaneous writings -- reviews (including puffs), comic or general sketches, political diatribes, "physiologies" and the like -- which, with his discarded prefaces and much more interesting matter, were at last, not many years ago, included in four stout volumes of the
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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There was a passing craze for revaluations ” what were called physiologies; and in 1829, Balzac dashed off a Physiologie du mariage ” 'by a Bachelor.'
Balzac at Thirty Pritchett, V.S. 1973
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Symbiogenesis – the appearance of new behaviors, tissues, organs, organ systems, physiologies or species as a result of symbiont interaction – is the major source of evolutionary novelty in eukaryotes: animals, plants and fungi.
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"But this is a very complicated set of physiologies and nicotine is an extraordinarily complicated drug."
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In the five thousand years of recorded human history, and indeed, inallof anthropologically and archeologically knowable human history, it is inarguably true that every single significant technological advance has been rapidly propagated across all cultures and societies, and that every individual human (for it is the individual who holds primacy of place in all human philosophies) quickly experienced profound and positive changes to their lives, physiologies, and psyches because of that advance.
Singularicat! 2009
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"But this is a very complicated set of physiologies and nicotine is an extraordinarily complicated drug."
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"But this is a very complicated set of physiologies and nicotine is an extraordinarily complicated drug."
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"But this is a very complicated set of physiologies and nicotine is an extraordinarily complicated drug."
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In the five thousand years of recorded human history, and indeed, inallof anthropologically and archeologically knowable human history, it is inarguably true that every single significant technological advance has been rapidly propagated across all cultures and societies, and that every individual human (for it is the individual who holds primacy of place in all human philosophies) quickly experienced profound and positive changes to their lives, physiologies, and psyches because of that advance.
April 2009 2009
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As he travels through the landscape he meets different people with diverse philosophies and physiologies.
Philosophy Swirling Around an Exotic Sun Karen Burnham 2010
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