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• control go
  (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
  
• ventilation, respiration, breathing, external respiration go
  the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation
  
• respiration go
  a single complete act of breathing in and out
  
• breath go
  the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
  
• consumption, intake, ingestion, uptake go
  the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
  
• sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity go
  activities associated with sexual intercourse
  
• insemination go
  the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female
  
• sleeping go
  the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
  
• reaction, response go
  a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
  
• crying, weeping, tears go
  the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
  
• ablactation go
  the cessation of lactation
  
• anastalsis go
  muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis
  
• discharge, emission, expelling go
  any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
  
• expectoration go
  the process of coughing up and spitting out
  
• suppuration, festering, maturation go
  (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
  
• healing go
  the natural process by which the body repairs itself
  
• hypostasis go
  the accumulation of blood in an organ
  
• watering, lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing go
  shedding tears
  
• lactation go
  the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands
  
• opsonization, opsonisation go
  process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis
  
• overactivity go
  excessive activity
  
• vermiculation, peristalsis go
  the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along
  
• perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis go
  the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
  
• phagocytosis go
  process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris
  
• pinocytosis go
  process by which certain cells can engulf and incorporate droplets of fluid
  
• placentation go
  the formation of the placenta in the uterus
  
• psilosis go
  falling out of hair
  
• tanning go
  process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
  
• transpiration go
  the process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes