Physiology

n.	1.	The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
	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.

Noun	1.	physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms
	2.	physiology - processes and functions of an organism

PHYSIOLOGY, med. jur. The science which treats of the functions of animals; it is the science of life.
     2. The legal practitioner who expects to rise to eminence, must acquire some acquaintance with physiology. This subject is intimately connected with gestation, birth, life and death. Vide 2 Chit. Pr. 42, n.

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