Injury
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Injury is physiological damage to an organism. The response to injury, whether in humans, in other animals, in plants, in fungi, or in single-celled eukaryotes such as choanoflagellates, is substantia
A crabeater seal injured by a predator
A sand lizard that has shed its tail when attacked by a predator, and has started to regrow a tail from the site of the injury
Injuries to humans elicit an elaborate response including emergency medicine, trauma surgery (illustrated), and pain management.
Oak tree split by lightning, an abiotic cause of injury.
Physiology
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Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biom
Injury
…Injury is physiological damage to an organism. The response to injury, whether in humans, in other animals, in plants, in fungi, or in single-celled eukaryotes such as…
Oil painting depicting Claude Bernard, the father of modern physiology, with his pupils
Laelaps Charles Knight 1897