How to Use physiological in a Sentence

physiological

adjective

• The most basic needs are physiological, like food to eat, shelter to live and clothes to wear.
  — Lindy Brewster, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Faced with a venomous foe, our body would trigger a physiological response to the fear in front of us.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• In the course of the year, Mark will submit to many of the same cognitive and physiological tests as Scott, though without leaving Earth.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• And, for some, the body may maintain that physiological response even when the stressor is no longer there.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2022
• There might also be physiological changes to the shrubs moose eat.
  — Avery Lill, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2022
• What are some of the physiological changes that occur as a result of chronic stress?
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• The reason for the risk could be related to the physiological effects of fish oil.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 21 May 2024
• Caruthers explained that when the body feels stress, a cascade of physiological changes takes place.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
• This source points to some telling signs of burnout, ranging from physiological to structural.
  — Courtney Smith, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• Thomas said physiological stress was not a direct cause of Floyd's death.
  — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Is there any physiological reason that a sneeze needs to involve the vocal cords?
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2022
• In 1941, Ely and Petersen wanted to learn more about the physiological processes at play in the ejection of milk from a cow's udders.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
• On the physiological side of things, the field got a big break in the 1950s, when a common treatment for epilepsy focused on removing parts of patients’ brains.
  — Doug Johnson, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020
• Stress is a hard-wired physiological response, triggered at the first sign of danger.
  — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• The physiological responses that make winters deadly may grow less severe the longer you’re exposed to the cold.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• The results showed that many species were pushed past their physiological limits.
  — NBC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• The power levels in the audio part of the spectrum are too low to produce physiological damage.
  — John Crowley, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• One reason is the belief that birth is a physiological process.
  — Rebecca Grant, Marie Claire, 9 June 2021
• If a heat wave stretches day after day, the physiological stress builds and builds on residents.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 May 2024
• The other is physiological: baseball has a very long season, with 162 games for each team, and top players get heavily used and are more likely to be tired or injured by the end of the year.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
• Coelacanths have a number of unique physiological traits that have suited them well over millions of years.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• The first will be something called Symptom Radar, which detects early signs of physiological strain.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
• More research is needed to prove the physiological perks.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• In fact, research by the Bond Business School found that the noise of open-plan offices increases physiological stress and negative mood.
  — Callum Adamson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Perhaps the central hallmark of aging is that, over time, physiological stressors—a cold, a fall, a bad night’s sleep—have a deeper and more prolonged impact.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
• First, extremely hot years induce physiological stress on meerkats because meerkats need to hide from the extreme heat.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 3 June 2022
• Patients wear a heart rate monitor on their wrists to monitor the physiological effect of a piece of music.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• It is caused by a fungal pathogen caused by the chytrid fungus that disrupts amphibian’s skin and physiological functions.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
• That idea stemmed from thinkers like Aristotle, who hypothesized that the heart dictated the body’s physiological and emotional systems.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• Even if these developmental divergences are, in part, the result of toxic elements, removing those elements from the body later on will not undo the physiological or neurological shifts that have already taken place.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Jan 2025