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PHYSIOLOGIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A biologist specializing in physiology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("physiologist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Instance hyponyms:

E. H. Weber; Ernst Heinrich Weber; Weber (German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878))

Lazzaro Spallanzani; Spallanzani (Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799))

Sherrington; Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952))

Schwann; Theodor Schwann (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882))

M. J. Schleiden; Matthias Schleiden; Schleiden (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881))

Jan Evangelista Purkinje; Johannes Evangelista Purkinje; Purkinje (Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869))

Gregory Goodwin Pincus; Gregory Pincus; Pincus (United States sexual physiologist whose hunch that progesterone could block ovulation led to the development of the oral contraceptive pill (1903-1967))

Ivan Pavlov; Ivan Petrovich Pavlov; Pavlov (Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936))

Johannes Peter Muller; Muller (German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858))

John James Rickard Macleod; John Macleod; Macleod (Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935))

Jacques Loeb; Loeb (United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924))

Andrew Fielding Huxley; Andrew Huxley; Huxley (English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917))

Alan Hodgkin; Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; Hodgkin; Sir Alan Hodgkin (English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998))

Hoagland; Hudson Hoagland (United States physiologist (1899-1982))

Hess; Walter Hess; Walter Rudolf Hess (Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973))

Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz; Helmholtz; Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz; Hermann von Helmholtz (German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894))

Haldane; John Haldane; John Scott Haldane (Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936))

Galvani; Luigi Galvani (Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798))

Einthoven; Willem Einthoven (Dutch physiologist who devised the first electrocardiograph (1860-1927))

Eccles; John Eccles; Sir John Carew Eccles (Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997))

Best; C. H. Best; Charles Herbert Best (Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978))

Bernard; Claude Bernard (French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878))

Banting; F. G. Banting; Sir Frederick Grant Banting (Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941))

Adrian; Baron Adrian; Edgar Douglas Adrian (English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997))

Derivation:

physiology (processes and functions of an organism)

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

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