Physiology vs. Morphology

Physiologynoun

A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.

Physiologynoun

(obsolete) The study and description of natural objects; natural science.

Physiologynoun

The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

Physiologynoun

A treatise on physiology.

Physiologynoun

the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms

Physiologynoun

processes and functions of an organism

Physiology

Physiology (; from Ancient Greek φύσις (physis) 'nature, origin', and -λογία (-logia) 'study of') is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical and physical functions in a living system.

Morphologynoun

(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Morphologynoun

(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).

Morphologynoun

(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.

Morphologynoun

(geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.

Morphologynoun

(math) Mathematical morphology.

Morphologynoun

(countable) The form and structure of something.

Morphologynoun

(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Morphologynoun

That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.

Morphologynoun

The form and structure of an organism.

Morphologynoun

The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.

Morphologynoun

The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.

Morphologynoun

the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants

Morphologynoun

studies of the rules for forming admissible words

Morphologynoun

the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

Morphologynoun

the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms

Morphologynoun

the study of the forms of things.

Morphologynoun

the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.

Morphologynoun

the study of the forms of words, in particular inflected forms

Morphologynoun

a particular form, shape, or structure.