Aestho-physiology

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The science of the relation between conscious human sensation and the physical nervous system. archaic, uncommon, uncountable

    "In addition to this there is the aesthetics of the subject and that leads naturally to what is sometimes called aestho-physiology or the study of the organs of sensation."

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"In addition to this there is the aesthetics of the subject and that leads naturally to what is sometimes called aestho-physiology or the study of the organs of sensation."

Etymology

Coined by English philosopher and biologist Herbert Spencer in 1872, from (a)esthesis + -o- + physiology.

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