biocybernetics
noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction
bio·cy·ber·net·ics ¦bī-(ˌ)ō-ˌsī-bər-¦ne-tiks 
: cybernetics that emphasizes information flow and processing and regulatory pathways within biological systems (such as a living organism or the central nervous system)
… laboratories in the United States and Europe have shown unequivocally that by conscious effort a person can control some brain emissions, and with training can use this control in ways that nature never achieved. "Our subjects can't exactly describe what it is they learn to do," said Dr. Grant McMillan, director of the biocybernetics project at Wright Patterson's Aeronautical Systems Center.
Malcolm W. Browne, New York Times, 7 Mar. 1995
Malcolm W. Browne, New York Times, 7 Mar. 1995
Word History
First Known Use
1958, in the meaning defined above
- stresslessness
- stresslessnesses
- stressor
- stressors
- stretch
- stretch (out)
- stretch a point
- stretch credulity
- stretch it
- stretch limo
- stretch limousine
- stretch marks
- stretch one's legs
- stretch out
- stretch receptor
- stretch runner
- stretch someone's patience
- stretch spinning
- stretch the rules
- stretch the truth
- stretch things
- stretch yarn
- stretch-out
- stretchabilities
- stretchability