Category:Physiology

Phys`i*ol"o*gy, n.; pl. Physiologies. Etym: [l. physiologia, gr. Physiologie.]

1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the Study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

Note: it is divided into animal and vegetable physiology, dealing With animal and vegetable life respectively. When applied especially To a study of the functions of the organs and tissues in man, it is Called human physiology.

2. A treatise on physiology. Mental physiology, the science of the Functions and phenomena of the mind, as distinguished from a Philosophical explanation of the same.