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homostasis

homostasis is the misspelling 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 homostasis

What is homostasis the misspelling of?
Homostasis is the misspelling of homeostasis.

Words near homostasis in the dictionary

  1. homospheroids
  2. homospore
  3. homospores
  4. homosporous
  5. homospory
  6. homostasis
  7. homostatic
  8. homosteric
  9. homosteroid
  10. homosteroids
  11. homostiid

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