Word Meanings - BIODYNAMICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine of vital forces or energy.

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• VITALIZATION
  The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
• VITALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
• ENERGY
  Capacity for performing work. Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the
• VITAL
  1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions. 2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood. Do the heavens afford him vital food Spenser. And vital
• VITALLY
  In a vital manner.
• VITALISM
  The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
• VITALIC
  Pertaining to life; vital.
• VITALIZE
  To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• VITALITY
  The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
• VITALIST
  A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.
• VITALS
  1. Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain. 2. Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state. "The vitals of the public body." Glanvill.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
• ELECTRO-VITAL
  Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
• DEVITALIZE
  To deprive of life or vitality. -- De*vi`tal*i*za"tion, n.
• ELECTRO-VITALISM
  The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
• TELENERGY
  Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic , a.
• MONROE DOCTRINE
  See DOCTRINE
• ENDOCTRINE
  To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.
• INTERVITAL
  Between two lives. Through all its intervital gloom. Tennyson.
• SUBVITALIZED
  Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.