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homeostasis

Homeostasis is the ability or tendency to maintain internal stability in an organism to compensate for environmental changes. (noun)

An example of homeostasis is the human body keeping an average temperature of 98.6 degrees.

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See homeostasis in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See homeostasis in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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