The biological or physiological production of energy or power, especially in living organisms; the generation of force.
From Greek dynamis (power) + genesis (origin, birth). This term was coined in 19th-century physiology to describe how living beings create and mobilize energy.
Scientists once believed the brain and nervous system generated a mysterious 'nerve force' through 'dynamogenesis'—this wrong theory shows how even incorrect ideas need names, and those names can haunt textbooks for decades.
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