psychobiologicaladj.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˌbʌɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˌbaɪəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Of or relating to psychobiology; both psychological and biological.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > interdisciplinary psychology > [adjective] > psychobiology
psychobiological1888
biopsychological1895
psychobiologic1921
the world > life > biology > study > [adjective] > biology > branches of biology
micrological1848
biomechanical1856
micrographic1856
biodynamical1874
microbiological1880
geratologous1884
bacteriological1886
bacterioscopic1886
psychobiological1888
biometric1894
biopsychological1895
bacteriologic1896
biometrical1896
biophysical1896
bioeconomic1899
sociobiological1904
microbiologic1909
biomedical1921
metabiological1921
psychobiologic1921
bioecological1927
radiobiologic1929
radiobiological1931
sociobiological1947
biopsychosocial1951
virological1953
glycobiology1988
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 373 There is undoubtedly one common psycho-biological law explaining the activities of the brain cells.
1928 Daily Express 23 Aug. 3/1 The two authors have produced a highly provocative collection of psycho-biological comments [on marriage].
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 690/1 The underlying pathology of anorexia nervosa may comprise one extreme of the psychobiological nutritional disturbances possibly common to many cases of ‘periodic oedema’.
1993 Humanist in Canada Winter 27/2 We [sc. humanists] consider religious institutions to be a manifestation of human culture and we wish to study them scientifically, using the best methods of the psycho-biological and social sciences to do so.
Derivatives
ˌpsychoˌbioˈlogically adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > interdisciplinary psychology > [adverb] > psychobiology
psychobiologically1910
the world > life > biology > study > [adverb] > biology > branches of
bacteriologically1892
bacterioscopically1903
psychobiologically1910
microbiologically1928
sociobiologically1948
radiobiologically1956
1910 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 21 386 Certain depressions and excitements and paranoic development of which we may say that they come nearer and nearer being both explained and accounted for psycho-biologically.
1935 D. K. Adams & K. E. Zener tr. K. Lewin Dynamic Theory of Personality iii. 79 The environment is..to be defined not physically but psychobiologically, that is, according to its quasi-physical, quasi-social, and quasi-mental structure.
1995 Psychosomatic Med. 57 411 Stress was associated with increased rates of illnesses, but only among psychobiologically reactive children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1888