homeostasis
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- noun
- /ˌhoʊmiəˈsteɪsɪs/
- Specialized
- The body regulates its temperature to maintain homeostasis despite external changes.
- maintain homeostasis
- glucose homeostasis
- lipid homeostasis
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Watch on YouTubeWe as human beings seek safety, homeostasis, normalcy.
- We as human beings seek safety, homeostasis, normalcy.
- Their job is done, they hop off and a level balance or homeostasis is restored.
- That's one of the key elements to really having an overall homeostasis of balance in your body.
- That is the definition of stress, a deviation from homeostasis.
- And the human species gears towards homeostasis.
- Are there cases where that dopamine balance never again reaches some level of homeostasis?
- So exercise snacks around meals is an easy way to improve postprandial glucose regulation and glucose homeostasis.
- Genes for wound healing, genes for homeostasis and genes that are responsible for inappropriate inflammation will go down.
- So we have, you know, our bodies seek balance and that balance in a, in medical terminology is homeostasis, right?
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Kidneys contribute greatly to homeostasis, but the other organs contribute to that as well.
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So the central thing that's going on here is homeostasis and how it's regulated.
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And the best thing is, homeostasis was maintained all night.
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Well, everyone needs to find their own homeostasis.
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So our body wants to sort of preserve a certain level of homeostasis within kind of the way our brain works.
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That's one of the key elements to really having an overall homeostasis of balance in your body.
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But remember, the survival of this system is dependent upon homeostasis.
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The main functions of hormones are to maintain homeostasis and regulate reproduction and development.
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Any stress, mental or somatic, within the environment, such as material deprivation, presents a challenge to homeostasis.
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Institutional systems are notorious for resisting change (maintaining homeostasis), and schools are no exception.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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An automatic adjustment inside a body or organ that keeps conditions steady
How Stable
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Morphology
homeostasis = homeo + stasis
The components 'homeo' and 'stasis' are not standalone English words, and their combination into 'homeostasis' is not transparent to learners without specialized knowledge in biology.
Etymology
Homeostasis comes from Greek parts homeo- meaning 'same' and -stasis meaning 'standing still' or 'staying', so it literally says 'staying the same', which helps you remember that homeostasis is the body's way of keeping its inner conditions steady.