Physiology is the study of how the body functions at the levels of organs, cells and molecules.
He became a leader in the study of human physiology at high altitudes, developing new understandings of how the body functions with reduced oxygen.
The blood circulates with less strain on the heart, the body functions with less fatigue, and the result is that you automatically become more serene.
Billed as a "visual guidebook," Mr. Wurman's work is a consumer's miscellany of information, covering ways the body functions and various ills that plague it.
Rather, she recommends home-based exercises that more closely mimic how the body functions in the real world.
The result is the body functions less effectively and may contribute to all the symptoms we have described beforehand.
"In a burn unit you use every skill you've learned in your entire life -- critical care, how each and every system in the body functions, psychology, maternity skills -- and you have to hone those with the patient.
Since Akin's debacle, we've learned that a former member of Congress once told the House Appropriations Committee that when people "are truly raped, the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant".
As The Associated Press reported at the time, during a 1995 debate over a proposal to eliminate a state abortion fund for poor women, Mr. Aldridge claimed, "The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant".
That's because cancers can produce molecules that change the way the body functions.
Learning about the human body and the way the body functions got me hooked on biology".
