physiology

Noun
  1. The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms (synset 106090110)
    associated with:
    • accommodation - (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
    • adaptation - (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
    • abduction - (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body
    • adduction - (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body
    • contraction, muscle contraction, muscular contraction - (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
    • control - (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
    • antagonistic muscle - (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another
    • humor, humour - (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
    • sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
    • localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle - (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
    • irradiation - (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
    • cell death, necrobiosis - (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
    • acid-base balance, acid-base equilibrium - (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body
    • autoregulation - (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
    • inhibition - (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
    • nutrition - (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance
    • relaxation - (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
    • stimulation - (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
    • summation - (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce
    • homeostasis - (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes
    • innervate - stimulate to action
    • irritate - excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
    • abducent, abducting - especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part
    • adducent, adducting, adductive - especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part
    • afferent - of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS
    • efferent, motorial - of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS
    • isometric - of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant
    • isotonic - of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes
    • cavernous, erectile - filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
    • erect, tumid - of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
    • antidromic - conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
    • excitable, irritable - capable of responding to stimuli
    • isotonic - of two or more muscles; having equal tension
    • unaerated, unoxygenated - (used of blood) not supplied with oxygen
    • voluntary - controlled by individual volition
    • involuntary - controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control
    • automatic, reflex, reflexive - without volition or conscious control
    • autonomic - relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system
    • vegetative - relating to involuntary bodily functions
    • autacoidal - of or relating to an autacoid
    • pressor - increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
    • tonic - of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue
    • sympathetic - of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system
    • parenteral - located outside the alimentary tract
    is a type of: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    subtypes:
    • neurophysiology - the branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system
    • hemodynamics - the branch of physiology that studies the circulation of the blood and the forces involved
    • kinesiology - the branch of physiology that studies the mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement
    • myology - the branch of physiology that studies muscles
  2. Processes and functions of an organism (synset 105012229)
    associated with:
    • fire - generate an electrical impulse
    • facilitate - increase the likelihood of (a response)
    is a type of: bodily property - an attribute of the body

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