PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physiological state mean? 

• PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE (noun)
  The noun PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE has 1 sense:

1. the condition or state of the body or bodily functions

  Familiarity information: PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition or state of the body or bodily functions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state

Hypernyms ("physiological state" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physiological state"):

cryptobiosis (a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill)

infertility; sterility (the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate)

false pregnancy; pseudocyesis (physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant)

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

rigor mortis (temporary stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity occurring after death)

vitalisation; vitalization (the state of being vitalized and filled with life)

good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)

fecundity; fertility (the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring)

potence; potency (the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse)

pathological state (a physical condition that is caused by disease)

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

cellularity (the state of having cells)

addiction; dependance; dependence; dependency; habituation (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs))

suspended animation (a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia)

myasthenia (any muscular weakness)

dilatation; distension; distention (the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions)

emmetropia ((ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina)

sedation (a state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent)

hyperpigmentation (unusual darkening of the skin)

hypopigmentation (unusual lack of skin color)

amyxia (a condition in which no mucus in produced)

cold sweat (the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear)

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

blockage; obstruction (the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction)

intoxication; poisoning; toxic condition (the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance)

analgesia (absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness)

oligospermia (insufficient spermatozoa in the semen)

elastosis (breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue))

bloodiness (the state of being bloody)

incompatibility ((immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue))

acathexia (an inability to retain bodily secretions)

angiotelectasia (dilation and enlargement of arterioles)

torpidity; torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility)

agalactia; agalactosis (a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered)

anaesthesia; anesthesia (loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness)

anhidrosis; anhydrosis (failure of the sweat glands)

arousal (a state of heightened physiological activity)

sleep; slumber (a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended)

sleep; sopor (a torpid state resembling deep sleep)

drive (a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire)

wakefulness (a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world)

flatulence; flatulency; gas (a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal)

flection; flexion; flexure (the state of being flexed (as of a joint))

estrus; heat; oestrus; rut (applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity)

anestrum; anestrus; anoestrum; anoestrus (applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus)

hypercapnia; hypercarbia (the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood)

acapnia; hypocapnia (a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing)

asphyxia (a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas)

oxygen debt (a cumulative deficit of oxygen resulting from intense exercise; the deficit must be made up when the body returns to rest)

hyperthermia; hyperthermy (abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer))

normothermia (normal body temperature)

hypothermia (subnormal body temperature)

muscularity (the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle)

 Context examples 

A small molecule that reacts with a known target in a predictable way, thereby showing location, identification, physiological state, etc.

(Chemical Probe, NCI Thesaurus)