homeostasis Definition
☆ homeo·sta·sis (hō′mē ō stā′sis)
noun
- Physiol. the tendency to maintain, or the maintenance of, normal, internal stability in an organism by coordinated responses of the organ systems that automatically compensate for environmental changes
- any analogous maintenance of stability or equilibrium, as within a social group
homeostasis Related Forms
ho′meo·stat′ic (--) adjective
homeostasis Usage Examples
Converse of object
- regulate: Cardiac structural biology Research focuses upon studies of ion channels regulating calcium homeostasis in the heart.
- maintain: The question is: What physiological systems help to maintain heart rate homeostasis?
- restore: Transplantation of pancreatic islets is arguably the most logical approach to restoring metabolic homeostasis in people with diabetes.
- control: Recent achievements include the identification of circuits that control body weight homeostasis, which could provide novel targets for the treatment of obesity.
- achieve: Help nature achieve homeostasis Treatment will induce over-active or under-active glands and organs to return to their normal functioning level or balance.
- include: Corticosteroids mediate a number of functions of mammalian brain, including blood pressure homeostasis, salt appetite and neuronal excitability.
Preposition: in
- cell: Ian Booth Our research in microbial physiology is based on ionic homeostasis in bacterial cells.
- heart: Cardiac structural biology Research focuses upon studies of ion channels regulating calcium homeostasis in the heart.
Adjective modifier
- cellular: Over the last twenty years, several studies have reported that RF exposure may produce changes in cellular calcium homeostasis.
- normal: This new phenomenon has major implications for our understanding of normal cellular homeostasis in the immune system.
- metabolic: Transplantation of pancreatic islets is arguably the most logical approach to restoring metabolic homeostasis in people with diabetes.
- vascular: Endothelin-1 and aldosterone play a critical role in vascular homeostasis and their high levels have been implicated in high altitude disorders.
- acid-base: Bandolier got the correct answers to question 1, but gets a severe headache when asked to think about acid-base homeostasis.
- altered: The contribution of altered ion homeostasis to development of osteoarthritis is also being examined.
Noun used with modifier
- glucose: Lecture 23: Blood glucose homeostasis - the integrated response to food, exercise, fasting & stress.
- calcium: Over the last twenty years, several studies have reported that RF exposure may produce changes in cellular calcium homeostasis.
- lipid: There are many human diseases associated with disrupted lipid homeostasis but the most prevalent of these is type II diabetes.
- ion: The contribution of altered ion homeostasis to development of osteoarthritis is also being examined.
- iron: Initially, a mutants will be screened for a combination of photosystem I impairment and a cellular iron homeostasis defect.
- tissue: The maintenance of tissue homeostasis is also aided by apoptosis, which acts to remove damaged, aged, autoimmune or malignant cells.
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