physiologer (fiziolojer)

[ The generality of the old phisiologers before Aristotle and Demo crit us did pursue the atomical way, which is to resolve the corporeal phenomena, not into forms, qualities, and species, but into figures, motions, and phancies. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 171. The earliest philosophers or physio log ers had occupied themselves chiefly with what we may call cosmology. Encyc . Brit ., XVIII. 792. physiologic (fiz"i-o-loj'ik), a. [= F. physio logique = Sp. fisiológico = Pg. physiologico = It. fisiologico, In early society, incest laws do not recognize physiologic conditions, but only social conditions. J. W. Powell, Science, IV. 472. No method is more alluring in physiologic studies than this of accurate measurement and description. IMG:content-0101.png:[blocks in formation] 4466 only botanic remedies, discarding those which are poisonous. physio not race (fiz-i-on'ō-trās), n. [F., Chrétien, in 1786, had invented an instrument which he denominated the physio not race , by which the profile out line of a face could be taken with mathematical precision, both as to figure and dimensions. The Century , XXXVIII. 779. physio philosophy (fiz"i-o-fi-los'ō-fi), n. [ physophorous philosophy of nature. physiophyly (fiz-i-of'i-li), n. [ liidæ: distinguished from the Chondrograda, as Velellidæ. See cut under Physalia. physograde (fi'so-grad), a. and n. [NL.phy so gradus, II. n . A member of the Physograda . Haeckel , Evol. of Man (trans.), I. 24. physio sop hic (fiz"i-o-sof'ik), a . [ physio so ph - y + -ic.] Pertaining to physio sophy. physio sophy (fiz-i-os'ō-fi), n. [ φύσις , nature, + σοφία , wisdom.) A doctrine concerning the secrets of nature. Fanciful ideas of the vaguest kind of physio sophy . Günther, Encyc. Brit., XX. 437.