Learn English – word that means “structure and function”

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"Structure and function" is a fairly common pairing of words used in structural biology; is there some word that means the same as the both?

I've taken to using "anatomy and physiology"—"structure and function" applied to the macroscopic—but I feel that it requires some poetic license.

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I'm not a biologist, but it seems to me structure and function/anatomy and physiology covers more or less everything in the field.

Here are over 8000 instances in Google Books for "the biology of the ear", and over 45,000 for "the biology of the liver". I'd be pretty sure they're all about the structure/function of those organs.

TL;DR: "anatomy and physiology" is biology.