How to Use physiologist in a Sentence

physiologist

noun
  • Fall forms what tree physiologists call the second wave of growth.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Plant physiologists at the Phoenix garden are studying how much heat cacti can take.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Hildreth, along with an exercise physiologist, sleep expert and mindset guides, look at the whole picture for guests.
    Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Turner may also have been a step ahead of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov.
    Alla Katsnelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But there’s another theory, put forward by a sports physiologist named Tim Noakes.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2020
  • For a century, physiologists have puzzled over how the body coordinates the switch between storage and release.
    Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • Heather Hamilton is an exercise physiologist and co-founder of Barpath Fitness.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Trained as an animal physiologist, Secker learned technical skills by pure chance, building PCs for his friends to play faster video games.
    Neal Taparia, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • From their electrode recordings, the physiologists identified more than 15 varieties of touch neurons based on the size of their fibers and their firing patterns and speed.
    Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Humphrey remembers with special vividness a day when his physiologist grandfather acquired a sheep’s head from a local butcher and taught an anatomy lesson at the kitchen table.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Tahli Gill, one half of its team, plans to be a primary school teacher, and her teammate Dean Hewitt is an exercise physiologist.
    New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • In 1760, the renowned physiologist Daniel Bernoulli attempted to put the matter to rest.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The turning point for her, though, came in a physiologist’s office, where McKeen had been working on her posture, along with regular barre training.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Exercise physiologist Rachelle Acitelli Reed says this translates to something that’s very, very hard to do four to six repetitions with.
    Jennifer Heimlich, Time, 6 July 2026
  • It was discovered and made famous in the 1890s by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who rang a bell before his dogs were fed.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • This was the case for Todd Buckingham, an exercise physiologist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
    Jenessa Connor, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That same year, the Austrian physiologist Eugen Steinach was trumpeting a new genital surgery to treat the diseases of aging.
    Joe Kloc, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • On top of that, your day to day lifestyle impacts your total weight, says Heather Hamilton, an exercise physiologist and co-founder of Barpath Fitness.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Sure, a physiologist named Michael Joyner had floated the idea that such a feat might be humanly possible in a journal paper way back in 1991.
    Alex Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Kaare Rodahl, a Norwegian physician, physiologist, and member of the original research team, wrote of the first exposure to the island.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • When Kafka wrote these lines, the work of Sigmund Exner, a Viennese physiologist who studied insect vision, was still well-known.
    László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • At a certain point in history, physiologists believed that the human lung would collapse under water pressure at a depth around 30m, making deeper free diving impossible.
    Big Think, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Chris Minson, a physiologist at the University of Oregon, found that training to withstand heat benefits athletes even in cool-weather races.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Once upon a time, a data guy, a software guy, and an environmental physiologist met on a hut-to-hut ski traverse of Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Tom Kimmerer, a plant physiologist who taught at the University of Kentucky, has tracked indoor farming alongside his research into the growth of plants both outdoors and inside.
    Melina Walling, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This was an independent study by David Hood, a prominent muscle physiologist at York University.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This belief goes back about 70 years, when American physiologist Ancel Keys proposed the diet-heart hypothesis.
    Joseph Choi, The Hill, 18 Jan. 2026
  • However, Lewin, the physiologist, is cautious about overextending the results and interpretations to every bird, given that the researchers haven’t looked at any migratory species.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • Zone 2 training also gives your heart a boost, added Christopher Travers, MS, an exercise physiologist at the Cleveland Clinic.
    Brian Mastroianni, Health, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In 1942, as desert warfare raged in North Africa, a crew of physiologists was dispatched to the Sonoran Desert to conduct experiments on soldiers.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 8 Jan. 2026

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