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-[[Image:Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty back.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"The Flayed Angel", [[anatomical]] drawing ([[1746]]) from "Myologie Complette En Couleur Et Grandeur Naturelle," by [[Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty]]]]+[[Image:Ernst Haeckel's Artforms of Nature of 1904.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Artforms of Nature]]'' ([[1904]]) by [[Ernst Haeckel]]<br>
 +The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel's ''Kunstformen der Natur'' of 1904, showing various [[sea anemone]]s [[classified]] as Actiniae.]]
 +[[Image:Vitruvian Man by Da Vinci.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Vitruvian Man]]'' by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], see [[man is the measure of all things]]]]
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-'''Physiology''' is the science of the functioning of living systems. It is a subcategory of [[biology]]. In physiology, the [[scientific method]] is applied to determine how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical function that they have in a living system. The word ''[[physiology]]'' is from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ''φύσις'', ''physis'', "nature, origin"; and ''-λογία'', ''[[-logia]]'', "study of".+'''Physiology''' is the science of the functioning of [[living system]]s. It is a subcategory of [[biology]]. In physiology, the [[scientific method]] is applied to determine how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical function that they have in a living system. The word ''[[physiology]]'' is from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ''φύσις'', ''physis'', "nature, origin"; and ''-λογία'', ''[[-logia]]'', "study of".
==Physiology (French literature) == ==Physiology (French literature) ==
-* [[La physiologie du mariage]] (1829) by Balzac+*[[Physiological literature (French literary genre)]]
-* [[Physiologie du goût]]+** [[La physiologie du mariage]], 1829, a book by Balzac
 +** [[Physiologie du goût]], 1825, a book by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
==See also== ==See also==
* [[Anatomy]] * [[Anatomy]]
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* [[Evolutionary physiology]] * [[Evolutionary physiology]]
* [[Physiome]] * [[Physiome]]
-* [[Physiological literature (French literary genre)]]+* [[Physiognomy]]
-* [[Physionomy]]+
* [[Somatopsychic]] * [[Somatopsychic]]
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Physiology is the science of the functioning of living systems. It is a subcategory of biology. In physiology, the scientific method is applied to determine how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical function that they have in a living system. The word physiology is from Greek φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia, "study of".

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