Biomedical vs Physiological - What's the difference?
biomedical | physiological |
Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
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Of, or relating to physiology.
Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.
As adjectives the difference between biomedical and physiological
is that biomedical is biomedical (pertaining to biomedicine) while physiological is of, or relating to physiology.biomedical
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Adjective
(-)- The research problem was biomedical' in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with '''biomedical''', psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our ' biomedical colleagues felt that [...]
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.
- Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.