Word Meanings - BIOSTATICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.

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• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• PHENOMENALISM
  That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• PHENOMENAL
  Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
• VITALIZATION
  The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• VITALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• 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.
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• PHYSICALLY
  In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke. 2. According to the rules of medicine. He that lives physically must live miserably.
• ORGANICALLY
  In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.
• OPPOSITION
  The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
• 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.
• ORGANIZABILITY
  Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.
• ORGANICAL
  Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.
• ORGANIC
  Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic
• VITALIC
  Pertaining to life; vital.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.