How to Use physiology in a Sentence
physiology
noun- She took a course in anatomy and physiology.
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Learn more about the physiology of stress and what that means for your best health and happiness.
— Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021 -
When your body gets hot, hundreds of thousands of years of physiology kick in to cool you down.
— Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Stark went on to write about the physiology of other extreme ways to die in his 2001 book, Last Breath.
— Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022 -
According to a study at Oxford, Covid-19 may change the physiology of the brain.
— Morgan Stephens, CNN, 23 July 2021 -
To start with, 14 young women from the dorm—a mix of suspects and control subjects—were asked to come to the physiology lab at the university.
— Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023 -
Ecologists struggle just to study trees: From branches to root systems, the parts of a tree say very little about the physiology of the tree as a whole.
— Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2024 -
The idea was to find substances that might be able to alter human physiology.
— Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023 -
Yet the former were awarded in chemistry, while the latter was in physiology and medicine.
— Jeffrey I. Seeman, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The man in the photo above is Svante Paabo, recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
— Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022 -
To confirm the link between physiology and lifestyle, researchers will have to study more species, Davis says.
— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024 -
This is the rare anime with episodes that double as lessons in human physiology.
— Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021 -
But some of the smartest crows of all may be found in the animal physiology lab at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
— Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024 -
There are other aspects of brain physiology, such as the way neurons connect, that play a role.
— Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 10 Jan. 2023 -
That animal isn’t the only one that’s hung onto its physiology for an epic amount of time.
— Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022 -
This has more to tell us about physiology and medicine than a casual glance might suggest.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022 -
Keep in mind that the eight-hour-per-night rule is based on the male physiology rather than the female physiology, many women and AFAB folks need nine hours of sleep.
— David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024 -
Anything that keeps our rhythmic physiology from getting the correct materials in the right place, in the right amount, at the right time of day will increase our health risks.
— Russell Foster, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 -
And this has been done ever since sleep physiology has been studied in the labs with a few electrodes, including some that are put under your chin.
— Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 -
That nicely ties back to the category of this award, physiology or medicine.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022 -
The new findings add to the growing body of work documenting the effects of space travel on human health and physiology.
— Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023 -
Going from the 5K to the half-marathon is a different distance; going from 5K to the mile is, as the physiology suggests, almost a different sport.
— Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 June 2021 -
The paper goes pretty deep into the intricacies of muscle physiology, but there are a couple of points that stood out to me.
— Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2022 -
Experts agree that men need skincare products tailored to the physiology of male skin.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Additionally, the trunk is not a limb and cannot use the tree’s architectural physiology to seal the wound caused by topping.
— oregonlive, 18 July 2023 -
A lot of this comes down to physiology—or, more specifically, your muscle type.
— Ali Nolan, SELF, 16 June 2022 -
On the other, obsessing over physiology can cause athletes to neglect the things in their lives that keep them grounded, from time with friends to taking care of their mental health.
— Greg Marshall, Outside Online, 2 July 2024 -
And none of the fish that Jasperse and Chernick collected in the past two summers showed signs of regaining their species’ original physiology.
— Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021 -
The other Nobel prizes, first awarded in 1901, are in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature.
— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 -
As in every year, the physiology or medicine prize was the first in the crop of Nobels, arguably the most prestigious prizes in science, literature and humanitarian endeavors.
— Niklas Pollard, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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