HOMEOSTASIS
Dictionary entry overview: What does homeostasis mean? • HOMEOSTASIS (noun)
The noun HOMEOSTASIS has 1 sense:
1. (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes
Familiarity information: HOMEOSTASIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HOMEOSTASIS (noun)
Meaning:
(physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("homeostasis" is a kind of...):
equilibrium (a stable situation in which forces cancel one another)
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)
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