What is any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice called?
action — (Physiol.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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