organismicadj.

1886 J. C. Burnett (title) Diseases of the skin, from the organismic standpoint.

1886 J. C. Burnett Dis. Skin p. ix Skin diseases are most commonly not merely organic, but at the same time organismic, or constitutional.

1921 C. M. Child Origin & Devel. Nerv. Syst. i. 3 The problem..is the problem of the nature and origin of the pattern which constitutes the organism as a whole, whether it consists of one cell or many, in short, the problem of organismic pattern. [Note] In view of the fact that the word ‘organism’, which implies the existence of a unity and order in the entity so designated, is universally accepted and employed, the word ‘organismic’ is not only biologically and etymologically justified but fills a need which is becoming more and more apparent.

1923 Psychol. Bull. 20 684 (heading) The organismic vs. the mentalistic attitude toward the nervous system.

1943 C. L. Hull Princ. Behavior ii. 28 The basic principles of organismic behavior are to be viewed against a background of organic evolution.

1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. iii. 54 Professor Radcliffe-Brown has..clearly and consistently stated the functional, or organismic theory of society.

1975 Nature 27 Mar. 370/2 Luria emphasises molecular aspects of biology, but not to the exclusion of organismic aspects.

2001 Hist. Today May 42/2 Ten years later Haeckel's definition of ecology had changed radically under the influence of Humboldt and of German Romanticism into a more organismic and synecological one.