physiology

English

Etymology

From French physiologie, from Latin physiologia, from Ancient Greek φυσιολογία (phusiología, “natural philosophy”), from φύσις (phúsis, “nature”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”). Equivalent to physio- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪziˈɒləd͡ʒi/

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

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Noun

physiology (countable and uncountable, plural physiologies)

2. 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.
3. (obsolete) The study and description of natural objects; natural science.

Synonyms

• (branch of biology): bionomy

Hypernyms

• biology

Hyponyms

• aestho-physiology
• biophysiology
• cardiophysiology
• cerebrophysiology
• chronophysiology
• cosmophysiology
• cryophysiology
• cytophysiology
• ecophysiology
• electrophysiology
• ethnophysiology
• etiophysiology
• geophysiology
• histophysiology
• immunophysiology
• macrophysiology
• metaphysiology
• microphysiology
• mitophysiology
• morphophysiology
• nanophysiology
• neuro-associative physiology
• neurophysiology
• neuropsychophysiology
• normophysiology
• optophysiology
• palaeophysiology
• paleophysiology
• pathoneurophysiology
• pathophysiology
• pharmacophysiology
• photophysiology
• phytophysiology
• psychophysiology
• sociophysiology
• sports physiology
• thermophysiology
• zoophysiology

 

Coordinate terms

• anatomy

Related terms

• physiologic
• physiological
• physiologist
• physiologize

Translations

branch of biology

• Arabic: فِيزْيُولُوجِيَا f (fizyulūjiyā)
• Armenian: ֆիզիոլոգիա (hy) (fiziologia), բնախոսություն (hy) (bnaxosutʻyun)
• Asturian: fisioloxía f
• Belarusian: фізіяло́гія f (fizijalóhija)
• Bulgarian: физиология (bg) f (fiziologija)
• Burmese: ဇီဝကမ္မဗေဒ (jiwa.kamma.beda.)
• Catalan: fisiologia f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: fyziologie (cs) f
• Danish: fysiologi (da) c
• Dutch: fysiologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: fiziologio
• Estonian: füsioloogia
• 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)
• Hindi: शरीरक्रिया विज्ञान m (śarīrkriyā vijñān), दैहिकी f (daihikī), कार्यिकी f (kāryikī)
• Hungarian: fiziológia (hu), élettan (hu)
• Icelandic: lífeðlisfræði f
• Indonesian: fisiologi (id), ilmu faal (id)
• 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)
• Kalmyk: физиолог (fiziolog)
• Kannada: ಶರೀರಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (śarīraśāstra)
• Khmer: សរីរវិទ្យា (km) (sa’rəy vityie)
• Korean: 생리학(生理學) (ko) (saengnihak)
• Lao: ສະລີລະວິທະຍາ (sa lī la wi tha nyā)
• Latin: physiologia f
• Latvian: fizioloģija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: fiziologija f
• Malay: fisiologi (ms), kaji tugas organ
• Maori: mātai whaiaroaro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fysiologi m

  Nynorsk: fysiologi m

• Occitan: fisiologia (oc) f
• Polish: fizjologia (pl)
• Portuguese: fisiologia (pt) f
• Romanian: fiziologie (ro) f
• Russian: физиоло́гия (ru) f (fiziológija)
• Spanish: fisiología (es) f
• Swahili: fiziolojia
• Swedish: fysiologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: liksanan
• Thai: สรีรวิทยา (th) (sà-rii-rá-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: fizyoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: фізіоло́гія (uk) f (fiziolóhija)
• Vietnamese: sinh lý học (vi) (生理學)
• Zazaki: fizyoloci f

See also

• biochemistry

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.