Quotes About Physiology

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force.

Through the development of the mathematics necessary to understand the facts of neural physiology and the electrochemistry of the nervous system, which themselves had to be, had to be, traced down to nuclear forces, it first became possible to truly develop psychology.

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

Our bodies have a finely tuned, built-in detoxifying system: It's called our liver, and it can detoxify our bodies better than any cleanse or fast without the unpleasantness and danger of muscle cramps, dehydration, and diarrhea associated with artificial cleanses.

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

El patrón respiratorio presenta períodos de inspiraciones muy breves, de tipo apneico (respiración casi detenida), seguidos de exhalaciones pasivas incompletas y a veces por una fase espiratoria de tipo "suspiro".

en el llanto modulan la fase inspiratoria, el aire entra en trecortadamente por la nariz, y sale en una larga espiración por la boca abierta (como en un suspiro). Cuando el llanto arrecia las sacadas entrecortadas también invaden la fase espiratoria (estallidos sacádicos) y se acompañan por sacudidas de los hombros.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

Measured with magnetic field meters, the electromagnetic field that the heart produces is some 5, 000 times more powerful than that created by the brain.

Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.

The muscle cells in your thigh are completely replaced, one at a time, day and night, about every four months. Brand-new muscles, three times a year. The solid leg you've stood on so securely since childhood is mostly new since last summer. Your blood cells are replaced every three months, your platelets every ten days, your bones every couple of years. Your taste buds

Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

Why do women not achieve orgasms during intercourse the same way men do? The answer is straightforward. The most sensitive sexual nerves in women are in the clitoris, which is outside and above the vagina. So, during traditional intercourse (with the couple face-to-face in the missionary position), while the man is having a grand ol'time, the woman may be compiling a grocery list for dinner that night.

The knowledge that some people can have enough while you never can is the single most compelling piece of evidence for a drinker to suggest that alcoholism is, in fact, a disease, that it has powerful physiological roots, that the alcoholic's body simply responds differently to liquor than a nonalcoholic's.

But research coming from the fields of evolutionary biology, physiology and neuroscience is all pointing to the fact that walking a lot, and running a little, made our species what it is today. If we don't do it enough, we risk losing our mental and emotional edge.