Johnston and Lewes, in their deservedly popular books, have said about the physiologic action of tobacco.
Future inquiry may reverse that verdict; but as the physiologic evidence now stands, there is a quite appreciable preponderance in favor of the practice of smoking.
Physiologic excess, it seems to me, has been best defined by a brilliant Frenchman named Duclaux, who says that any one has drunken alcohol to excess who one hour after he has taken it is conscious in any way of having done so.
The fact, however, that perfect success in sex may occur with absolute failure in the career, however, splits the problem for good into its realities: a physiologic aspect as well as a psychologic.
Besides guarding the body against mechanical damage or destruction, it has to be guarded against injury from other causes--against the disease and death that follow breaches of physiologic law.
We have already seen how, through thephysiologic fact of memory, experiences are found in our consciousness which are similar, that is, partially coinciding with one another.
This is the crowning work on physiologic optics, and will mark a new era in optical study.
It is to be realized that the relation is not simple and direct or physiologic merely (e.
For laryngeal operation and bronchoscopy the following technic is used: One hour before operation the patient is given hypodermatically a full physiologic dose of morphin sulphate (from 1/4, to 3/8 gr.
The sites of the lesion are those of physiologic narrowing of the esophagus.
A physiologic narrowing is present at this level, produced in part by muscular contraction, and mainly by the crowding of the adjacent viscera into the fixed and narrow upper thoracic aperture.
Since low temperatures mean physiologic dryness, whether or not rains are abundant, the dryness of the winter months has little effect in restricting the range of Alpine species.
It is the same on the playas along the river; the recent additions to the flood plain are easy to cultivate, but they lack humus and a fine matrix which retains moisture and prevents drought or at least physiologic dryness.
Both animals were recovered alive and did not show pathologic alterations in theirphysiologic and psychological reactions.
Subsequent flights such as Project MIA (Mouse-in-Able) reflected a preoccupation with physiologic measures (refs.
Much may be expected from physiologicand pharmacologic studies of the specific vitamine, although it is not yet available in a pure state.
If the polyneuritis of beriberi and the hemorrhages of scurvy are attributable to a diminished secretion of the endocrine glands, then it will be necessary to revise present conceptions of theirphysiologic functions.
During pregnancy the mammary glands are in immediate sympathy with the growing reproductive organs of the pelvis; consequently a genuine physiologic enlargement commences in these organs from the beginning of gestation.
Other physiologic changes which occur at the same time are decrease in the size of the spleen and lymphatic glands, the muscular coats of the intestine atrophy, and lessened peristalsis ensues; hence the increased tendency to constipation.
She has had no instruction in the corresponding physiologic life of the man, and is astonished at the male sexual indications, and is led to believe in their physiologic necessities.
The recurrence of physiologic phenomena at regular intervals.
It used to be argued that, since giving birth to children was a physiologic process, there was no necessity for the woman to consult the physician until he was sent for when the labor pains began.
The average stature of the man is about three inches greater than that of the woman, and in the physiologic marriage any great deviation from this should be avoided.
The frequency with which Bright's disease is found at the time of the menopause is dependent not so much on the local physiologic changes which are taking place as on the time of life.
If, on the first indication of the change of life, women who are in fair health carefully followed a regimen and pursued a line of life in harmony with the physiologic processes on which this change depends, disease would be prevented.
There are strong physiologic reasons against long engagements: they keep the affections and the passions in an excited and unnatural condition, which after a time tends to weaken the nervous system and undermine the health.
After-pains are caused by the same physiologic process that causes labor pains-- namely, by the contractions of the uterus.
When this great nerve-tract becomes atrophic, so that it can no longer transmit the higher physiologic orders, all parts of the sympathetic system must be unbalanced, until a new line, the next line of least resistance is established.
Contusions of tissues that cannot be givenphysiologic rest, such as the thoracic wall, and the respiratory muscles, respond less promptly to treatment.
It is obvious that this can be accomplished only through the agency of certain definite manual and therapeutic measures, the physiologic actions of which are well understood and known to be reliable.
During the acute stages, physiologic rest is important; the restoration of functional use in severe cases must be tentative, guided by the response of the tissue in the form of increased pain or swelling.
In the traumatic, the fracture is the result of violence acting upon a bone which is either normal or shows slight changes due to the physiologic causes mentioned.
In planning the treatment of wounds the most careful consideration for securing physiologic rest should be had.
In whatever part of the body, physiologic rest should be secured as nearly as possible.
Physiologic rest means not only less pain, less reaction, but a more rapid and certain repair.
Laboratory work is arranged to show the methods of physiologic experimentation and to emphasize the necessity of using care and accuracy in their application.
In the development of this plan the following topics will be considered: the food requirements of man, the nutritive history of the physiologic ingredients, the principles of dietetics and their application to daily living.
There is no reliable evidence that they exert a physiologic effect; it has not been demonstrated that they influence any pathologic process; they are not ‘foods.
There are, however, certain physiologic methods by which the activity of such preparations may be determined with a considerable degree of exactness.
Not satisfied with the assertions of the dealers, the conscientious Chinese physician subjects his tiger-bone to a kind of physiologic standardization.
Under physiologic conditions, such mixtures are chemically impossible: in a liquid medium the ingredients destroy each other.
Hence we cannot account for the absolute inactivity of these preparations except on the assumption that they did not contain any secretin to start with; that is, faulty preparation and absence of physiologic standardization.
The physiologic factors involved are so complex that they would appear to make a really valuable assay a question of many months’ careful study.
The method of treatment largely employed at these heart resorts is to withdraw all, or nearly all, of the active drugs that the patient may be taking, and to substitute physical and physiologic methods of therapy.
Hence a fair dose of morphin hypodermicaly with a small dose of atropin, if respiratory depression is feared, is a physiologic method of bettering the condition.
In hyperthyroidism at first the blood pressure may be lowered on account of the increasedphysiologic secretion of the thyroid gland.
The physiologic action of alcohol, which dulls or benumbs the nervous system and dilates the peripheral blood vessels, is exactly in line with the clinical indications.
Referring to the first chapter of this book, it will be noted that many physiologic factors must enter into the production of the normal regularity of the pulse.
If the shock is due to hemorrhage and the hemorrhage has ceased, a transfusion of physiologic saline solution is generally indicated.
Arteriosclerosis or arteriocapillary fibrosis is really a physiologic process naturally accompanying old age, of which it is a part or the cause, and it should be considered a pathologic condition only when it occurs prematurely.
It should be given in the best preparation obtainable, and should be pushed gradually (not suddenly) to the point of fullphysiologic activity.
As a working rule it should be noted that the diastolic pressure is not as much influenced by physiologic factors or the varying conditions of normal life as is the systolic pressure.
Sometimes in serious emergencies it has been found to be of value when given intravenously in physiologic saline solution.
Almost any strong passion, anger, extreme agony or joy, may cause them; so that what Sappho described was not love in particular, but thephysiologic effects of violent emotions in general.
The word physiologic implies something healthy and normal, but Sappho's poems are not healthy and normal; they are abnormal, they are pathologic.
Therefore the neurasthenia requires in its treatment in the ancestor the removal of the exciting cause and the treatment of the effect by physiologic rest in the truest sense of the word.
The same influence may be exerted on the spleen and suprarenal capsules, thus interfering with the physiologicguards these organs furnish against disease and its results.
Recently acquired characters, whether physiologic or pathologic, are very liable to disappear when the individual bearing such characters intermarries with another not having the same character.
But when both parents are possessed of the character, whether it be physiologic or pathologic, this natural tendency to revert to the original is often overborne and the character is repeated in an accentuated form in the offspring.
In some cases, in accordance with the general law that physiologic atrophy is accompanied by hypertrophy in other directions, the intellectual powers other than along certain lines may be remarkably deficient.
At the periods of physiologicstress these effects are especially noticeable.
Variations ofphysiologic life under tropical thermal conditions have little to do with the race.
The influence of altitude on the physiologic characteristics is, however, very evident.
In the history of all plants and animals is evident the physiologic truth, that while the general growth of the individual proceeds rapidly, the reproductive organs remain imperfectly developed and inactive.
Neither anatomic nor physiologic researches are calculated to demonstrate just what associating fasciculi or what groups of such fasciculi are subservient to any particular co-ordination.
In an experimental research, we found evidence that the physiologic phenomena of fear have a physical basis.
The cycle of greatest kinetic energy for physiologic ends is the period of reproduction.
The events follow each other with such kaleidoscopic rapidity that the process is but a series of automatic stimulations and physiologic reactions.
Menten to determine by electric measurements the H-ion concentration of the blood under certain pathologic and physiologic conditions.
Sherrington has made free use of Darwin's doctrine in explaining physiologic functions, just as anatomists have extensively utilized it in the explanation of the genesis of anatomic forms.
Fear, like trauma, may cause physiologic exhaustion of and morphologic changes in the brain-cells.
It is because nature has no helpful response to offer against cancer, while in certain of the acute pyogenic infections the nociceptors force the beneficent physiologic rest.
It is the adequate stimulation of the nociceptors and the physiologic response for the purpose of self-preservation.
Polymorphonuclear leukocytosis may be eitherphysiologic or pathologic.
It probably never occurs as a physiologic condition, the so-called "functional albuminuria" being due to obscure or slight pathologic changes.
Physiologic variations are marked; thus, the number {166} increases as one ascends to a higher altitude, and is higher in winter than in summer.
Again, the employment of artificial means to excite and maintain the effervescence of the imagination assigns a causal or antecedent position to the physiologic conditions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "physiologic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
