physiological

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti

Ancient Greek φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Ancient Greek φῠ́σῐς (phŭ́sĭs)

English physio-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek -λόγος (-lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía)

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Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Ancient Greek -λογικός (-logikós)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālislbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English -logical

Latin physiologicus

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English -al

English physiological

Either from physio- +‎ -logical (equivalent to physiology +‎ -ical) or Latin physiologicus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.i.kəl/

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• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.i.kəl/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɔd͡ʒ.i.kəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌfəz.i.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.i.kəl/, [ˌfəz.i.əˈlɔ̟d͡ʒ.i.kəl]
• Rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl

Adjective

physiological (comparative more physiological, superlative most physiological)

1. Of, or relating to physiology.
   • 2014, David Newton, chapter 4, in Steroids and Doping in Sports: A Reference Handbook‎^[1], Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 169:

     When the institute was moved to Tübingen in 1945 because of air raids on Berlin, he also assumed the post of professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Tübingen and, when the institute was moved once again in 1956 to Münich, he also was named professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Münich. He retired from his post at Münich in 1971.

2. Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.

Synonyms

• physiologic

Derived terms

• anatomophysiological
• aphysiological
• biophysiological
• cardiophysiological
• chemicophysiological
• chronophysiological
• climatophysiological
• cryophysiological
• cytophysiological
• ecophysiological
• electrophysiological
• extraphysiological
• geophysiological
• hyperphysiological
• hypophysiological
• immunophysiological
• macrophysiological
• metaphysiological
• microphysiological
• mitophysiological
• morphophysiological
• neurophysiological
• neuropsychophysiological
• nonphysiological
• normophysiological
• optophysiological
• osmophysiological
• palaeophysiological
• paleophysiological
• paraphysiological
• pathophysiological
• pharmacophysiological
• photophysiological
• physicophysiological
• physiological density
• physiologically
• physiological time
• phytophysiological
• psychophysiological
• subphysiological
• superphysiological
• supraphysiological
• thermophysiological
• unphysiological
• zoophysiological

Translations

of, or relating to physiology

• Afrikaans: fisiologies
• Arabic: فَسْلَجِي (faslajī), فِسْيُولُوجِي (fisyūlūjī)
• Armenian: ֆիզիոլոգիական (fiziologiakan)
• Asturian: fisiolóxicu
• Belarusian: фізіялагі́чны (fizijalahíčny)
• Catalan: fisiològic (ca)
• Czech: fyziologický (cs) m
• Danish: fysiologisk
• Dutch: fysiologisch (nl)
• Finnish: fysiologinen (fi)
• French: physiologique (fr)
• Galician: fisiolóxico (gl)
• German: physiologisch (de)
• Greek: φυσιολογικός (el) (fysiologikós)
• Gujarati: દેહધાર્મિક (dehdhārmik)
• Hungarian: fiziológiai (hu), élettani (hu)
• Indonesian: fisiologis (id)
• Italian: fisiologico (it)
• Kazakh: физиологиялық (fıyzıyologıyalıq)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: fîzyolojîk (ku)

• Latvian: fizioloģisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fysiologisk (no)

  Nynorsk: fysiologisk

• Occitan: fisiologic (oc)
• Polish: fizjologiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: fisiológico (pt)
• Romanian: fiziologic (ro)
• Russian: физиологи́ческий (ru) (fiziologíčeskij)
• Spanish: fisiológico (es)
• Swedish: fysiologisk (sv)
• Tagalog: liksananin
• Ukrainian: фізіологі́чний (fiziolohíčnyj)

relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person

• Dutch: fysiologisch (nl)
• Indonesian: fisiologis (id)