Quotes About Physiology

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

physiological correlates of emotion." Pert's work sheds new light on the physical nature of feelings and the powerful effects that they have on our bodies. Because of her research and other relevant studies, we can consider the possibility that our emotions are passed from one generation to the next in a physical form.

HERE IS A GENERAL statement about Tibetan medicine: Human physiology is spoken of in terms of the three humours — wind, bile and phlegm. Where do disturbances originate? Wind, bile and phlegm imbalances occur respectively, from the 'three poisons', or primary mental afflictions, namely attachment, anger and ignorance.

Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion—that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God—jeopardises the teaching of biology in science class, since teaching that would violate the separation of church and state!' Right. You also ought to soft-pedal physiology, since it declares virgin birth impossible

the conclusion I wish to draw is not really disputable. If host behaviour or physiology is a parasite adaptation, there must be (have been) parasite genes 'for' modifying the host, and the host modifications are therefore part of the phenotypic expression of those parasite genes. The extended phenotype reaches out of the body in whose cells the genes lie, reaches out to the living tissues of other organisms.

Anybody can grow a bone in the penis; you don't have to be particularly healthy or tough.

There are more cells in your brain than there are brains in your entire body.

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

He realized that Lili and he shared something: a pair of oyster-blue lungs; a chugging heart; their eyes, often rimmed pink with fatigue. But in the skull it was almost as if there were two brains, a walnut halved: his and hers.

Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.