Quotes About Physiology

mucus, a mixture of white blood cells, water, the sticky protein known as mucin, and cast-off tissue cells.

heavy bleeding in the premenopausal years is in fact normal.

estrogen spurs the growth of many cell types—mammal, insect, grain.

In a female guinea pig, a membrane normally covers the vaginal opening. It takes the release of sex hormones during ovulation to open up the membrane and allow the guinea pig to have sex.

the pinkish peritoneum, the springy membrane that encloses and protects other organs.

The myosin in our own skeletal muscles is more closely related to the myosin driving the flight muscles of that irritating housefly buzzing around your head than it is to the myosin in the muscles of your own sphincters

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

Physiology on one side, sociology on another, signed the partition of psychology. Personal life has been abolished, like the Polish Sejm.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Regardless of their sex, good-looking faces light up the brain

what really drops glucose is exercise—but, contrary to the predictions of the glucose hypothesis, exercise tends to make you better at subsequent tasks requiring mental effort, not worse.

Remember that the polygraph test is not a lie detector. It only detects emotional arousal.

He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.

Providing a minute or two of silence between questions allows deeply restorative physiological cycles to engage.

The brain doesn't feel pain.