Definitions
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- Not in accordance with the laws of physiology.
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- adjective Not related to, or governed by
physiology
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Examples
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Quite clearly, people are not equal, and so to compress everyone into a narrow band is ‘unphysiological’.
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Like a snowball rolling down the hill, as one unphysiological practice is employed …another frequently becomes necessary to counteract some of the disadvantages, large or small, inherent in the previous procedure.6
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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She attends parties in a dress that is unphysiological in warmth, distribution and adjustment, in rooms badly ventilated; partakes of
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Even those who fail, from their lack of training, to comprehend moral distinctions in this matter should be able to appreciate the difference between a method that is physiological and one that is unphysiological.
Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921
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When a person is diseased the majority of mental-scientists would at least admit that certain unphysiological conditions were present and needed to be overcome.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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Their breakdown was due to the terrible load of unphysiological habits which they had been carrying -- a load so great that scarcely any work could be carried in addition.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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If women were to avail themselves of these ways of escape out of unphysiological conditions, the woman agitator would probably find it as difficult to keep alive a passionate agitation for woman suffrage as the Irish Nationalist agitator to keep alive, after the settlement of the land question and the grant of old age pensions, a passionate agitation for a separate Parliament for Ireland.
The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage Almroth Wright 1904
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To sit at a piano and sing is an unphysiological proceeding, because it implies that the head is bent in reading the music on a page much lower than the eyes, and when, with this, the head is turned to one side to allow of reading the music on the distant side of the page, furthest from the middle line of the head, the case is still worse.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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One's own sensations and common sense should never be disregarded, however eminent the teacher who recommends unphysiological methods.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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Your astonishment at the tenacity of life of fallacies, permit me to say, is shockingly unphysiological.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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