biophysicaladj.

1896 C. A. Stephens Long Life II. i. 9 We have..to picture this personal life as a bio-physical impulse which for a time rises superior to the resistance, then slackens and falls away to cessation.

1900 Lancet 30 June 1851/2 The staining reaction is also different, showing a bio-chemical as well as a bio-physical change.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 30 The details of shape-taking also depend on biophysical and biochemical laws, but they are influenced by the activities of the creature and by its surroundings.

1995 Independent 14 Feb. 25/5 The breast biophysical examination.., which uses special sensors to measure electrical activity, correctly identified 98 per cent of 182 breast cancers.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 265/1 Convinced that he had found a guru whose consciousness transcended biophysical stimulation, Alpert became a convert to Raja Yoga.

1926 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 37 456 Stimuli and responses which are biophysically different may be biosocially equivalent.

1971 Nature 23 July 244/2 Determining the structural properties in solution of a large number of biophysically interesting molecules.

2002 SIAM Rev. 44 718/1 Detailed biophysically based models with thousands of variables.