bio statical (biostatikal)

life, + στατικός, causing to stand: see static.] Of or pertaining to biostatics. No philosophic biologist now tries to reach and modify a vital force, but only to reach and modify those bio statical conditions which, when considering them as causes, and condensing them all into a single expre ion, he calls Vitality, or the Vital Forces. G. H. Lewes , Probs. of Life and Mind, I. ii. § 2. biostatics (bi-ō-stat'iks), n. [Pl. of biostatic : see - ics .] That branch of biology which deals with the statical and coexistent relations of structure and function: opposed to biodynam ics and bio kinetics .