How to Use physiology in a Sentence

physiology

noun
  • She took a course in anatomy and physiology.
  • The physiology of the foot is the basis for much of the research.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Bats altered their physiology to deal with this stress, and some of the changes had spin-off effects.
    Rachel Ehrenberg, Ars Technica, 3 July 2020
  • 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
  • Due to that, the student would have to bring her baby to Cissé's anatomy and physiology class the next day.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 27 Sep. 2019
  • All that stress can cause your skin physiology to change.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2020
  • According to a study at Oxford, Covid-19 may change the physiology of the brain.
    Morgan Stephens, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • From a physiology standpoint, the unique view comes down to types of light receptors in the eye itself.
    Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Plants have evolved their physiology to build armor around their body and roots called the periderm.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • But the gold standard to study sleep is using physiology, Franken says.
    National Geographic, 10 July 2019
  • The first rigorous study to assess the impact of ASMR on mood and physiology was published in 2018.
    Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • The oxygen of publicity Those qualities were certainly to the fore in the award of the prize for physiology or medicine.
    The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Until now, little was known about the impact of tourism on the physiology of these charismatic cats.
    Neha Jain, Quartz India, 30 Oct. 2019
  • A decade ago, Carlson was a rising star in the field of exercise physiology.
    Ben Guarino, The Verge, 12 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • The board currently includes nine Nobel laureates, many of them in physics, physiology or medicine.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025

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