English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

of Biography

To write a history of the life of.

Biographical writings in general.

The written history of a person's life.

Alt. of Biological

Of or relating to biology.

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

The destruction of life.

Relating to the destruction of life.

Relating to biomagnetism.

Animal magnetism.

Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

Physiology.

One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.