physiology

English

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Etymology

From French physiologie, from Latin physiologia, from Ancient Greek φυσιολογία (“natural philosophy”), from φύσις (physis, “nature”) + λόγος (logos, “word”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˌfɪziˈɒləʤi/, SAMPA: /%fIzi"Ql@dZi/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˌfɪziˈɑːləʤi/, SAMPA: /%fIzi"A:l@dZi/

Noun

physiology (uncountable)

1. A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
2. (obsolete) The study and description of natural objects; natural science.

Derived terms

• animal physiology
• cytophysiology
• ecophysiology
• electrophysiology
• neurophysiology
• pathophysiology
• plant physiology
• psychophysiology
• sociophysiology

Related terms

• physiologic
• physiological
• physiologist

Translations

branch of biology

Arabic: فيزيولوجيا (ar) (fizyulūjiya) f. Armenian: ֆիզիոլոգիա (hy) (fiziologia), բնախոսություն (hy) (bnaxosut’yun) Chinese: Mandarin: 生理 (cmn) (shēnglǐ), 生理學 (zh), 生理学 (zh) (shēnglǐxué) Czech: fyziologie (cs) f. Dutch: fysiologie (nl) f. Esperanto: fiziologio (eo) Finnish: fysiologia (fi) French: physiologie (fr) f. German: Physiologie (de) f. Greek: φυσιολογία (el) (fysiología) f. Hebrew: פִיזְיוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) (fizyológya) f.

Icelandic: lífeðlisfræði (is) f. Italian: fisiologia (it) Japanese: 生理 (ja) (せいり, seiri), (science, subject) 生理学 (ja) (せいりがく, seirigaku) Khmer: សរីរវិទ្យា (km) Korean: 생리학 (ko) (saengnihak) (生理學 (ko)) Latin: physiologia (la) f. Malay: fisiologi (ms), kaji tugas organ (ms) Novial: fisiologia Romanian: fiziologie (ro) f. Russian: физиология (ru) (fiziológija) f. Spanish: fisiología (es) f. Turkish: fizyoloji (tr) Vietnamese: sinh lý học (vi) (生理學 (vi))

See also

• biology
• anatomy

External links

• physiology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• physiology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• physiology at OneLook Dictionary Search