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Definition
the branch of biology that studies the functioning of organisms; or an organism's processes and functions
- In three other points their physiology differed strangely from ours.2.2 — Book 2 Chapter 2 — What We Saw from the Ruined House (51% in)
- My knowledge of comparative physiology is confined to a book or two, but it seems to me that Carver's suggestions as to the reason of the rapid death of the Martians is so probable as to be regarded almost as a proven conclusion.2.10 — Book 2 Chapter 10 — The Epilogue (4% in)
- But everyone is familiar with the magnificent and almost complete specimen in spirits at the Natural History Museum, and the countless drawings that have been made from it; and beyond that the interest of their physiology and structure is purely scientific.2.10 — Book 2 Chapter 10 — The Epilogue (28% in)
There are no more uses of "physiology" in The War of the Worlds.
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