(a.) Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.
(a.) Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.
(a.) Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.
(a.) Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(2) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(3) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(4) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(5) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(6) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(7) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(8) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(9) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(10) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(11) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(12) Taken together with other physical studies on the effect of vitamin E on (unsaturated) phospholipids, these results indicate that vitamin E could influence the physical properties of membrane phospholipids in addition to its known antioxidant role.
(13) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
(14) The results confirm that physical training is clinically effective in patients suffering from claudication.
(15) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
(16) The studies reported here examined physical interactions between V. cholerae O1 and natural plankton populations of a geographical region in Bangladesh where cholera is an endemic disease.
(17) The weakness was treated by intensive physical rehabilitation with complete and sustained recovery in all cases.
(18) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(19) Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop different sets of criteria to serve different investigative purposes.
(20) The initial history, physical findings, and roentgenographic examinations are found on this page.
Physique
Definition:
(n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factor analysis by the Jöreskog method was applied to data obtained from measurements of 19 skeletal measurements of human physique, carried out in 1971 on 166 men and 122 women students of the Warsaw Technical University.
(2) Measuring items of the physique were the height, the weight, the chest circumference, the sitting height, and the foot area.
(3) Maternal factors and perinatal outcome of low birth-weight (less than or equal to 2,500 g) infants of 46 adolescent mothers was studied and compared with 160 adolescents who delivered infants weighing greater than 2,500 g. The significant factors found in the low birth-weight group were anaemia, small maternal physique and preterm delivery.
(4) Using the cluster analysis of objects in the space of physique factors the objective classification of peripubertal stage of ontogenesis in girls has been constructed.
(5) In the whole, the results indicate the existence of marked genetic determination of physique's growth and development in a stage under study of human ontogenesis.
(6) In this context, mesomorphy appears to provide the optimum description of physique variation.
(7) An examination of 16 of the 28 children to determine the relationship between their physique, personality, and blood pressure was made.
(8) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
(9) The volleyball players were the more linear in physique and the better jumpers.
(10) The exact relation between social variables and physique, as part of this triangle, did not yield gracefully to delineation.
(11) The subjects' physiques were assessed using the Health-Carter anthropometric somatotype method.
(12) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
(13) Racial variation in physique and body composition are of interest to sport scientists because these characteristics may be related to athletic performance, fitness, strength and injury.
(14) Thus, the perception of somatotype and discrepancy between perceived and preferred physique could significantly differentiate the character traits attributed to body build among male and female children.
(15) As it was supposed that some improvement of the nutrition and physique since the end of the war should make the heart weight heavier, the value on 1,399 cases of medicolegal autopsy was measured and analyzed.
(16) Even his physique answered to 19th century notions of muscular Christianity and a masculine ideal premised on imperial service.
(17) A predictive research design was employed as 56 runners ran each of the three distances and were evaluated for VO2max, running mechanics, physique variables, ventilatory threshold, and anaerobic capacity and power.
(18) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
(19) If they want to learn how people's health, physiques and attitudes change over time, they have to come here.
(20) In Sussex C ounty, England a computerized school health service records the health a nd physique of school children.