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单词 biophysiology
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biophysiologyn.

Brit. /ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˌfɪzɪˈɒlədʒiː/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌfɪziˈɑlədʒi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bio- comb. form, physiology n.
Etymology: < bio- comb. form + physiology n.
Originally: the scientific study of functions found exclusively in living organisms (now rare or disused). In later use: (Psychology) the study of emotion, mental functioning, and behaviour in terms of biology and physiology.
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1881 T. S. Hunt in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 12 248 I therefore venture to designate the study of these by the distinctive name of Biophysiology.
1914 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 14 722 Health problems of women: Eugenics as it concerns college women; bio-physiology and bio-psychology of sex.
1941 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 54 606/2 The surgeon has not paid sufficient attention to biophysiology or anatomy and has not realized that of all the blood supply coming to bone 75 per cent of it comes via..the marrow of the bone.
1988 C. B. Travis Women & Health Psychol. iii. 63 Occurrence of these critical incidents is correlated with phases of the menstrual cycle, on the assumption that the biophysiology of the menstrual cycle is responsible for the overt behavior.
2007 Canad. Psychol. 48 203/1 His masters thesis research investigated the biophysiology of chronic pain, mapping attentional biases for pain onto established neural pathways for fear.

Derivatives

biophysiˈologist n. an expert or specialist in biophysiology.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > physiology
physiologist1666
physiologera1697
zoonomist1800
physiologian1825
physiologue1877
biophysiologist1882
1882 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 169 The eminent biophysiologist, William B. Carpenter.
1946 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 59 717 The volume has been written by seventeen men, about two-thirds of them medical, four professional psychologists, one sociologist, one statistician, and one biophysiologist.
1994 B. J. Cratty Clumsy Child Syndromes iv. 56 The prolific developmental psychologist T. G. R. Bowers emphasized the need to delve into neural mechanisms... Biophysiologists..responded to Bower's challenge.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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