How to Use physiological in a Sentence

physiological

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stress is a physiological reaction, hard-wired in the body, that helps protect it against external threats.
    — Akilah Johnson, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • On July 30, the Inspector General said an email was sent to 70 staffers of the prison physiological unit instructing that Epstein was to be housed with a cellmate.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 27 June 2023
  • That much sugar in the blood leads to serious physiological problems in people.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The researchers calibrated their model using data from experiments involving both high- and low-carbohydrate and high- and low-fat meals to ensure that the parameters of the model were robust and reflected real physiological processes.
    — New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2024

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