physiology

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French physiologie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin physiologia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φυσιολογία (phusiología, “natural philosophy”), from φύσις (phúsis, “nature”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪziˈɒləd͡ʒi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪziˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

Noun

physiology (countable and uncountable, plural physiologies)

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.

Hyponyms

• cytophysiology
• ecophysiology
• electrophysiology
• neurophysiology
• pathophysiology
• phytophysiology
• psychophysiology
• sociophysiology
• zoophysiology

 

Related terms

• physiologic
• physiological
• physiologist

Translations

branch of biology

• Arabic: فِيزْيُولُوجِيَا f (fizyulūjiyā)
• Armenian: ֆիզիոլոգիա (hy) (fiziologia), բնախոսություն (hy) (bnaxosutʻyun)
• Asturian: fisioloxía f
• Burmese: ဇီဝကမ္မဗေဒ (jiwa.kamma.beda.)
• Catalan: fisiologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生理 (zh) (shēnglǐ), 生理學／生理学 (zh) (shēnglǐxué), 生理学 (zh) (shēnglǐxué)

• Czech: fyziologie (cs) f
• Dutch: fysiologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: fiziologio
• Finnish: fysiologia (fi)
• French: physiologie (fr) f
• Galician: fisioloxía (gl) f
• German: Physiologie (de) f
• Greek: φυσιολογία (el) f (fysiología)
• Gujarati: દેહધર્મવિદ્યા (dehdharmavidyā), શરીરક્રિયાવિજ્ઞાન (śarīrakriyāvijñān), શારીરિકશાસ્ત્ર (śārīrikśāstra)
• Hebrew: פִיזְיוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (fizyológya)
• Hungarian: fiziológia (hu), élettan (hu)
• Icelandic: lífeðlisfræði f
• Irish: fiseolaíocht f
• Italian: fisiologia (it)
• Japanese: 生理 (ja) (せいり, seiri), (science, subject) 生理学 (ja) (せいりがく, seirigaku)
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• Kalmyk: физиолог (fiziolog)
• Khmer: សរីរវិទ្យា (km) (sa’rəy vityie)
• Korean: 생리학 (ko) (saengnihak) (生理學 (ko))
• Latin: physiologia f
• Latvian: fizioloģija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: fiziologija f
• Malay: fisiologi, kaji tugas organ
• Maori: mātai whaiaroaro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fysiologi m

  Nynorsk: fysiologi m

• Novial:
• Occitan: fisiologia f
• Portuguese: fisiologia (pt) f
• Romanian: fiziologie (ro) f
• Russian: физиоло́гия (ru) f (fiziológija)
• Spanish: fisiología (es) f
• Tagalog: liksanan
• Thai: สรีรวิทยา (sà-rii-rá-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: fizyoloji (tr)
• Vietnamese: sinh lý học (vi) (生理學)

See also

• biology
• anatomy

References

• physiology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “physiology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “physiology”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “physiology”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.