accommodation - (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye

adaptation - (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

abduction - (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body

adduction - (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body

contraction, muscle contraction, muscular contraction - (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

control - (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc; "the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired"; "he had lost control of his sphincters"

antagonistic muscle - (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another; "the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles"

humour, humor - (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"

sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"

localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle, localization - (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body

biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms

kinesiology - the branch of physiology that studies the mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement

myology - the branch of physiology that studies muscles

irradiation - (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex

cell death, necrobiosis - (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)

acid-base balance, acid-base equilibrium - (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is slightly alkaline"

autoregulation - (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism

inhibition - (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve"

nutrition - (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance

relaxation - (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

stimulation - (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)

summation - (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce

innervate - stimulate to action; "innervate a muscle or a nerve"

irritate - excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; "irritate the glands of a leaf"

abducent, abducting - especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part

adducent, adducting, adductive - especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part

afferent - of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS; "afferent nerves"; "afferent impulses"

efferent, motorial - of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS; "efferent nerves and impulses"

isometric - of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant

isotonic - of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes

voluntary - controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles"

involuntary - controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start"

autacoidal - of or relating to an autacoid

pressor - increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure; "pressor reflexes"

tonic - of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue; "a tonic reflex"; "tonic muscle contraction"

bodily property - an attribute of the body