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homeostasy

homeostasy is the alternative form of homeostasis.

Meaning of homeostasis

Noun

homeostasis (countable and uncountable, plural homeostases)

  1. 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
  2. Such a dynamic equilibrium or balance.

Questions about homeostasy

What is homeostasy the alternative form of?
Homeostasy is the alternative form of homeostasis.

Words near homeostasy in the dictionary

  1. homeosis
  2. homeostases
  3. homeostasis
  4. homeostasome
  5. homeostasomes
  6. homeostasy
  7. homeostat
  8. homeostatic
  9. homeostatical
  10. homeostatically
  11. homeostatics

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