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physiology

[fiz-ee-ol-uh-jee] / ˌfɪz iˈɒl ə dʒi /




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His school grades were not enough to get him into medical school, so he attended an access course at Glasgow Kelvin college to study physiology at the University of Glasgow.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Scientists who worked out how to control brain cells with light have won this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

How fantastic to have solved such an interesting biological question, but why the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

“In biomechanics, in human physiology, what kills you is routine,” Bermon says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Since completing my Ph.D. in 1961, I have divided my scientific research efforts between two fields: molecular physiology on the one hand, evolutionary biology and biogeography on the other hand.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

People have different physiologies, exercise regimes and injury histories which might dictate not only level of cushioning, but also support, stability and heel-to-toe drop of the shoe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

He and colleagues have established a lab colony of the Llullaillaco rodents and other high-altitude mice in Chile to study their unique physiologies.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 23, 2023

In other words, all athletes possess different physiologies, but when does the disparity become unfair?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022

As a collective group, protists display an astounding diversity of morphologies, physiologies, and ecologies.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

And we can, on occasion, deliberately alter some of these genes to change their functions, thereby resulting in altered human states, altered physiologies, and changed beings.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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