S: (adj) abducent, abducting (especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part)
S: (adj) adducent, adductive, adducting (especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part)
S: (adj) afferent (of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS) "afferent nerves"; "afferent impulses"
S: (adj) efferent, motorial (of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS) "efferent nerves and impulses"
S: (adj) isometric (of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant)
S: (adj) isotonic (of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes)
S: (adj) erectile, cavernous (filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood) "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ"
S: (adj) involuntary (controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control) "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start"
S: (adj) automatic, reflex, reflexive (without volition or conscious control) "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"
S: (adj) autonomic (relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system) "autonomic reflexes"
S: (adj) vegetative (relating to involuntary bodily functions) "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) antagonistic muscle ((physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another) "the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles"
S: (n) humor, humour ((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"
S: (n) irradiation ((physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex)
S: (n) necrobiosis, cell death ((physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells))
S: (n) acid-base equilibrium, acid-base balance ((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"
S: (n) autoregulation ((physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism)
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) relaxation ((physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers)
S: (n) stimulation ((physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.))
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) homeostasis ((physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes)
S: (v) innervate (stimulate to action) "innervate a muscle or a nerve"
S: (v) 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"
W: (adj) physiologic [Related to: physiology] (of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning) "physiologic functions"; "physiological processes"