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physiological, a.|ˌfɪzɪəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
Also 7 phi-.
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
†1. Relating to the material universe or to natural science, physical; belonging to the Physiologers as students of nature. Obs.
1610Healey Vives' Comm. St. Aug. Citie of God v. ix. (1620) 196 This opinion is Physiologicall and imbraced by Alexander, one of Aristotles interpreters. 1662H. More Def. Philos. Cabbala App. i. (1712) 114 The Mosaical Philosophy, in the Physiological part thereof, is the same with the Cartesian. 1673Ray (title) Observations Topographical, Moral, and Phisiological, made in a Journey through part of the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 348 The laws of gravitation, attraction, and impulse, and other objects of physiological science. 1809–10Coleridge Friend ii. x. (1818) III. 188 With these secret schools of physiological theology the mythical poets were doubtless in connection.
2. a. Pertaining or relating to physiology; relating to the functions and properties of living bodies. physiological psychologist, a specialist in physiological psychology.
1814D. Stewart Philos. Mind II. iv. vi. 465 One of the most noted physiological works which have lately appeared on the Continent. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 100 The General Physiological Chemistry of the Blood. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. (1870) 1 Physiological Botany treats of plants, and their organs, in a state of life or action. 1873C. H. Ralfe Phys. Chem. Introd. 13 The term Physiological Chemistry is generally limited to the study of the chemical phenomena attendant upon the life of Animals. 1875G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind (ser. 1) II. 482 The common error of mistaking ideal separations for real separations..leads the physiological psychologist to the conclusion that the objective aspect of the phenomenon..is the cause of the subjective aspect. 1880Richardson in Med. Temp. Jrnl. 70 The physiological action of alcohol. 1899W. James Talks to Teachers xii. 119 If we remember because of our associations, and if these are (as the physiological psychologists believe) due to our organized brain-paths, we easily see how the law of recency and repetition should prevail. 1904E. B. Titchener tr. Wundt's Princ. Physiol. Psychol. p. vi, I have here sought to give this important chapter of physiological psychology at any rate a tentative systematic setting. 1933Physiological phonetics [see acoustic phonetics]. 1950Sci. News XV. 9 These facts caused Thomas Young, who has since been called ‘the father of physiological optics’ to propose, a century and a half ago, the three-colour theory of vision which bears his name. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 411/2 Physiological phonetics is part of laboratory or experimental phonetics. 1967R. F. Thompson Found. Physiol. Psychol. p. xxvii, Physiological psychology is concerned with the physiological bases of behavior. In the last analysis this means the organization and functions of the brain. 1973Dewsbury & Rethlingshafer Compar. Psychol. 10 Lashley was a teacher of several men who became outstanding in the revitalization of comparative and physiological psychology that occurred after World War II.
b. Med. = normal a. 2 f.
1896Jrnl. Physiol. XX. 145 (heading) On the initial rate of osmosis of blood-serum with reference to the composition of ‘physiological saline solution’ in mammals. 1923P. H. Mitchell Text Bk. Gen. Physiol. vi. 148 Physiological salt solutions do not have irritating effects when in contact with open wounds. 1952Sci. News XXIV. 27 Minced animal tissues were extracted with physiological saline (0·85% NaCl). 1969J. H. Green Basic Clin. Physiol. vi. 37/1 The sodium chloride is present in plasma to the extent of 0·9 g. per 100 ml. A solution containing this amount of sodium chloride in water is termed normal isotonic or physiological saline, and it has the same electrolyte strength as blood. |