hemeostasis

hemeostasis is the alternative form of hemostasis.

hemeostasis is the misspelling of homeostasis.

Meaning of hemostasis

hemostasis (usually uncountable, plural hemostases)

(countable, uncountable, usually) The regulated physiological process by which the body arrests bleeding at a site of vascular injury while preserving blood fluidity and normal circulation elsewhere.
- A complete hemostasis is achieved with a minimal risk of injury to the trachea when using level 3 with the blunt side of the active blade.2005, W. Feil, Ultrasonic energy for cutting, coagulating, and dissecting, page 158

homeostasis (countable and uncountable, plural homeostases)

The ability of a system or living organism to adjust its internal environment to maintain a state of dynamic constancy; such as the ability of warm-blooded animals to maintain a stable temperature.
- His most important work concentrated on the complexities of chemical neurotransmission (for which Otto Loewi received a Nobel Prize in 1936) and on “homeostasis” (a term coined by Cannon in 1926), the maintenance of steady states in the body and the physiological processes through which they are...2002, "Walter Bradford Cannon" in American Journal of Physiology, 92(10):1594-5, DOI 10.2105/AJPH.92.10.1594
Such a dynamic equilibrium or balance.

What is hemeostasis the alternative form of?: Hemeostasis is the alternative form of hemostasis.

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