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Either from physio- +‎ -logical (equivalent to physiology +‎ -ical) or Latin physiologicus +‎ -al.[1]

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physiological (comparative more physiological, superlative most physiological)

  1. Of, or relating to physiology.
    • 2014, David Newton, chapter 4, in Steroids and Doping in Sports: A Reference Handbook[1], Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 169:
      When the institute was moved to Tübingen in 1945 because of air raids on Berlin, he also assumed the post of professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Tübingen and, when the institute was moved once again in 1956 to Münich, he also was named professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Münich. He retired from his post at Münich in 1971.
  2. Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.

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  1. ^ physiological, adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.