Quotes About Physiology

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.

Singing has an impact on the human body.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

Don't you think the Gods put some thought into where they put the prostate gland?

How we "feel"—tired or energetic, listless or enthusiastic—is mental and chemical; it is physiological.

Many cells inside my ears, in the ossicle, and malleus, cochlea, have died where they lived and worked—I don't know if they're there, still, looking like themselves but dead, or if their corpses wore away, broke down to their elements and were shuffled off by capillaries, I don't know if I peed them out and now they're in an ocean bay or trench, or if I breathed them out, I might breathe one in again.

horse's body parts are called its

the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.

As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.)

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.

The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis "has the shape of a boomerang.