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adverb
Functionally  adv.  In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. "The organ is said to be functionally disordered."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Functionally" Quotes from Famous Books



... when functionally considered, an instrument for enabling us the better to HAVE TO DO with the object and to act about it. But it and the object are both of them bits of the general sheet and tissue of reality at large; and when we say that the idea leads us towards the ...
— The Meaning of Truth • William James

... fracture happens in the shaft of the humerus, above or below the insertions of the pectoral and latissimus dorsi muscles, these are the very agents which when the bone possessed its integrity rendered it functionally fitting, and which, now that the bone is severed, produce the displacement of the lower fragment from the upper one. To counteract this source of derangement, the surgeon becomes the mechanician, and now, for the ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... not care about the equality. The whole Christian attitude of love and self-sacrifice was old hat. He knew that position and authority were the right thing in the world, and it was useless to cant about it. They were the right thing, for the simple reason that they were functionally necessary. They were not the be-all and the end-all. It was like being part of a machine. He himself happened to be a controlling, central part, the masses of men were the parts variously controlled. This was merely as it ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... winter quarters sleek and fat, and comes forth in the spring just as plump with lymph, but he loses this fat appearance soon after obtaining food. This simply indicates that, during lymphatic activity, the digestive organs are comparatively quiescent. But when these are functionally employed again, lymphatic economy is not required. It is the duty of the lymphatics to slowly convert the fat by such transformation, that when it reaches the general circulation, it may there unite with other organic compounds, the process being aided by atmospheric nitrogen, introduced ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



Words linked to "Functionally" :   functional, functionally illiterate



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