physiologic functions.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The word physiologic implies something healthy and normal, but Sappho's poems are not healthy and normal; they are abnormal, they are pathologic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

Crombleholme TM, Adzick NS, Longaker MT, Duncan BW, Harrison MR: Reduced size lung transplantation in neonatal swine: Technique and short-term physiologic response.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHOP congenital diaphragmatic hernia publications] Reference

The first, called physiologic reserve, refers to excess capacity in organs and biological systems; we're given this reserve at birth, and it tends to decrease over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

And it's bad news because if you get a physiologic craving.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2003] Reference

The other is physiologic, whether you have a craving for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2003] Reference

Kernel moisture content is about 30 percent at physiologic maturity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

You need to sleep as much as your own personal physiologic makeup dictates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Sleep: Your Dedicated Health Care Partner] Reference

When we're in stress, the body is in the physiologic fight-or-flight reponse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have Faith, Dieters] Reference

GLICK: Rather than chronological age, you want to assess the physiologic age.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2008] Reference

Pharmacology alters physiology, causes extra physiologic changes in the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2004] Reference

SPECTER: Rather than chronological age, you want to assess the physiologic age.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2008] Reference

Genetics and management of physiologic systems of sorghum for biomass production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 28] Reference

In fact, budding technically comes under the same physiologic principles as grafting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference

With healthy plants, kernel moisture at physiologic maturity will vary from about 28-36 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

Keep in mind that physiologic maturity is not reached until all the kernel's milky starch has solidified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

There are scores of techniques that bring about the same physiologic state, which is an anti-stress state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2005] Reference

Like maize, sorghum kernels also develop a "black layer" at their base when physiologic maturity is reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

All of this can lead to a set of physiologic changes in the body, in -- which are opposite to those of stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2003] Reference

And anything that triggers extra -- sort of triggers that in an extra-physiologic way will activate the disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 5, 2006] Reference

With frequent injections the weaker of the two solutions is mixed with 2 to 4 parts of physiologic salt solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference

The physiologic tension of the eyeball is essential to ocular refraction, and closely related to ocular nutrition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference

And there is a real physiologic phenomenon of this opiate tolerance that addicts have, that chronic pain patients have.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2006] Reference

The pineal gland produces more melatonin and that appears to be a physiologic correlate, maybe even a cause, of depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [SADness: Seasonal Affective Disorder & Vitamin D] Reference

Science is inclined to charitably label this specimen of man a sort of a physiologic puzzle, to be as much pitied as blamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

This presumably indicates worse healthcare, although some suspect the "physiologic effects of experiencing lifelong racism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip N. Cohen: What Ails Black Women, Part 2: Health and Life] Reference

Did you ever take 9.01, psychology from an entirely physiologic approach, which was a fantastic course with Teuber lecturing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » California Court Rejects Santa Barbara Beach Club’s Attempts to Suppress Criticism] Reference

You don't really have much control over the situation and might not be able to counteract this exaggerated physiologic reflex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can a Massage Cause Stroke?] Reference

When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

“Because organs that are packed in ice can retain their physiologic function for at least twelve hours,” Joanna explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Care]

JAMES BARBEE, LSU ANXIETY CLINIC: Stress changes the ability of the body to cope with infection and other physiologic processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006] Reference

At this stage the kernels have accumulated only about one-third of the total dry matter yield they will have at physiologic maturity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Pregnancy and childbirth are physiologic and are devoid of any great amount of discomfort, pain or danger when women lead normal lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

The concept of compound eyes bugging outward was unreasonable from a physiologic standpoint, but that was the impression Flinx received.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphan Star]

Thus, he explored much more than potential physiologic issues, inquiring about how Marissa invests other energy -- work, family, social.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Total Energy' Makeover Continues - How's Your Energy] Reference

Acute, physiologic fatigue is usually a temporary condition with the muscle (s) regaining their ability to contract after a period of rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muscles Part 1] Reference

Man himself is a mysterious object and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems] Reference