physiologistn.
/ˌfɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌfɪziˈɑlədʒəst/ 1. A natural philosopher. In later use chiefly: spec. a philosopher of the Ionic school.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [noun] > adherent of
naturiena1393
naturalist1587
physiologer1598
naturian1602
physiologist1653
naturist1686
the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > natural history
naturalist1600
natural historian1640
physiologist1653
naturala1682
field naturalist1789
physiophilist1804
natural scientist1872
naturist1925
wildlifer1963
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [noun] > Presocratic philosopher or adherent > of specific schools
Ionic1483
Pythagorean1531
Pythagorist1576
Italic1594
physiologer1598
Democritean1603
atomist1610
Pythagoric1652
physiologist1653
acousmatic1660
mathematic1660
Pythagorite1660
Anaxagorean1678
Anaximandrian1678
atomic1678
Heraclitic1678
Parmenidean1678
Pythagorician1678
hylopathian1809
atomician1850
neopythagorean1891
1653 H. Moseley in Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick To Rdr. sig. a4v For, He must be a Physiologist; that He may demonstrate the Creation, Nature, Proprieties, and Effects of a Natural Sound.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 72 The Physiologist also may gather something from the former Observations, touching the nature of Colours.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 31 Socrates..perceiving how much his Predecessors, Thales &c. (who were generally Physiologists) had abused Physics.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 50 Priestley, Black, Cavendish, and Macbride, had opened to physiologists a sort of new creation.
1827 R. P. Ward De Vere (ed. 2) viii. 145 Questions..which as they seem to depend upon a particular sort of air, we must leave to physiologists.
1925 W. B. Hillis tr. E. Rohde Psyche xi. 382 What Empedokles the physiologist teaches of the psychical powers that dwell in the elements and are bound to the body that is composed of the elements and perish with their dissolution.
1991 M. I. Spariosu God of Many Names iv. 168 Plato challenges his rivals, be it the poets, the Sophists, or the physiologists, to spirited verbal contests.
2. An expert in or student of physiology (cf. physiology n. 2).
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > physiology
physiologist1666
physiologera1697
zoonomist1800
physiologian1825
physiologue1877
biophysiologist1882
1666 G. Thomson Λοιμοτομια 75 To render a sound reason of this albified coagulation in this right Ventricle of the Heart, may perhaps puzzle a good Physiologist.
1717 F. Bellinger Tractatus de Fœtu Nutrito 76 Thus have I given a short account of the Nutrition of the Fetus in the womb; in some parts demonstrably true... This is for the first enough, perhaps too much, which I offer to the censure of every candid Physiologist.
1778 A. Reid Inq. Suppress. Urine (M.) The most skilful anatomist and physiologist.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxv. 312 This distinguished surgeon and physiologist has done more than all who preceded him to illustrate his subject.
1881 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 8 Sept. 440/2 The subjects of experiment used by the two last-mentioned physiologists were themselves.
1937 Life 13 Sept. 118/1 (advt.) Physiologists say muscular exercise produces toxic waste matter in the muscles themselves.
1988 J. Gleick Chaos (U.K. ed.) 4 Physiologists found a surprising order in the chaos that develops in the human heart.
2002 Time 21 Jan. 84/1 More and more physiologists recommend that people of a certain age start weight lifting..with a program of regular, modest weight training.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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