Hypertext Webster Gateway: "physiology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Physiology \Phys`i*ol"o*gy\, n.; pl. {Physiologies}. [L.
physiologia, Gr. ?; fy`sis nature + ? discourse: cf. F.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
physiology
n 1: the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the
functioning of organisms
2: processes and functions of an organism
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