physic-, physico-, physi-, physio-, phy-

One who investigates the physiology of living beings.

Structural or descriptive biology.

That part of biology that includes organogeny, morphology, and physiology.

Unnatural; contrary to nature.

A branch of physics that is concerned with processes and phenomena at temperatures approaching absolute zero.

The physics of cellular activity.

Physiology of individual cells, as compared with entire tissues or organisms; also, cellular physiology.

In mycology, a hypha or filament that branches out on trees; found in fungi belonging to the family Cyphellaceae.

The study of the interrelationship between an organism’s physical functioning and its environment.

1. The branch of medicine or biology dealing with the study of electric activity in human or animal bodies.
2. The branch of physiology that studies the relationship between electric phenomena and bodily processes.
3. The electric activity associated with a bodily part or function.

The physiology of sensation and the sense organs; sensory physiology.

Not subject to physical laws or methods.

Of or concerned with geophysics; for example, "Geophysical sciences."

A geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth.

1. The physics of the earth and its environment, including the physics of fields; such as, meteorology, oceanography, and seismology.
2. The study of the earth by quantitative physical methods; especially, by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods.
3. The scientific study of the physical characteristics and properties of the solid earth, its air and waters, and its relationship to space phenomena.
4. The science that deals with the weather, winds, tides, earthquakes, etc.; and their effects on the earth.
5. The soils, sediments, and rock layers of the earth's crust, both continental and beneath the ocean floors.

The meaning of the word geophysics is undergoing changes. The classical methods of geophysics are being applied to the planets now that we can reach them.

Seismological techniques are being used to study the interior of the moon, and magnetic field measurements are important probes for the planets.

The name will not change; however, because it is a most encompassing science, ranging from petroleum exploration on the earth to the understanding of the most distant planets.