单词 | biostatics |
释义 | biostaticsn.1 With singular agreement. A division of biology concerned with the study of systems that are at rest or in equilibrium (as opposed to being in movement) or of structure as related to function. Cf. biodynamics n. 1, biokinetics n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > biology > branches of biology micrography1658 micrology1848 biostatics1849 electrobiology1849 biotechnics1852 human biology1860 phylogeny1872 developmental biology1877 psychobiology1879 microbiology1880 biokinetics1883 bacteriology1884 geratology1884 thremmatology1888 cell biology1889 biophysics1892 biomechanics1899 pathobiology1900 biometry1901 biometrics1902 metabiology1906 bioenergetics1907 radiobiology1919 biomedicine1922 photobiology1923 virology1935 sociobiology1946 space biology1955 prebiology1963 chronobiology1969 glycobiology1988 1849 A. Smee Elements Electro-biol. vi. 58 (heading) Bio-statics. 1865 T. S. Lambert Systematic Human Physiol, Anat. & Hygiene i. i. 21 Anatomy, or Bio-Statics, treats upon the structure, viz., color, size, form, surface, position, and composition of living things. 1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 115 These may be classed (by a serviceable extension of the term Statics) under the heads of Biostatics and Psychostatics. 1938 Jrnl. Marketing 2 181/2 Beyond biostatics we find biodynamics arising as the study of active forces at work in living organisms. 1974 Jrnl. Biomechanics 7 190/1 Biostatics may be described as the study of biological systems which are in equilibrium and at rest (Example: The pressure distribution in the trunk of a tree). 2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 15 We were offered a biological model that dismissed the soul and stressed the importance of orgiastic relief from tension (biostatics and biodynamics). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). biostaticsn.2 Now rare. With singular agreement. = biostatistics n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > within specific field statistics1797 biostatics1851 biostatistics1865 statistical mechanics1885 Bose–Einstein statistics1928 Bose statistics1931 stylometry1945 cliometrics1960 stylometric1968 bibliometrics1969 macrolinguistics1972 1851 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 8) 135/1 Biostatics, statistics, medical. 1863 Home & Foreign Rev. July 343 Ethnology, biostatics (height, weight, average length of life, &c.), influence of external circumstances (soil, occupation, &c.) upon biostatical conditions. 1916 Monist 26 389 Considering Jewish biostatics as a whole it would seem to indicate that the Jews are physiologically and pathologically superior to their neighbors. 1934 Sci. Monthly May 435/2 ‘Adding machine biology’, some call it; others dignify it by the name of biostatics or biometry. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11849n.21851 |
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