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  • Of or pertaining to physiology.

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  • adjective Physiological.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to physiology.

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  • adjective of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning

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Examples

  • The word physiologic implies something healthy and normal, but Sappho's poems are not healthy and normal; they are abnormal, they are pathologic.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • There is very little evidence that heroin does long term physiologic damage besides addiction, when you exclude the problems associated with non-sterile intravenous administration (e.g. blood borne pathogens and/or infection).

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Your Crime Control Policy On Drugs 2009

  • Crombleholme TM, Adzick NS, Longaker MT, Duncan BW, Harrison MR: Reduced size lung transplantation in neonatal swine: Technique and short-term physiologic response.

    CHOP congenital diaphragmatic hernia publications 2010

  • Antidepressant medications can begin to break a physiologic depressive slide.

    Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin 1993

  • Antidepressant medications can begin to break a physiologic depressive slide.

    Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin 1993

  • Antidepressant medications can begin to break a physiologic depressive slide.

    Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin 1993

  • The first, called physiologic reserve, refers to excess capacity in organs and biological systems; we're given this reserve at birth, and it tends to decrease over time.

    NYT > Home Page By JANE E. BRODY 2010

  • The first, called physiologic reserve, refers to excess capacity in organs and biological systems; we're given this reserve at birth, and it tends to decrease over time.

    NYT > Home Page By JANE E. BRODY 2010

  • The first, called physiologic reserve, refers to excess capacity in organs and biological systems; we're given this reserve at birth, and it tends to decrease over time.

    NYT > Home Page By JANE E. BRODY 2010

  • "physiologic" breeding season - strongest in April, May,

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