homeostasis

Etymology
Coined from by, from.

Noun

 * 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.
 * 2) * 2002, "Walter Bradford Cannon" in American Journal of Physiology, 92(10):1594-5, DOI 10.2105/AJPH.92.10.1594
 * 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 regulated.
 * 1) * 2011, Professional Guide to Pathophysiology, Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, page 1:
 * When homeostasis is disrupted by an external stressor - such as injury, lack of nutrients, or invasion by parasites or other organisms - illness may occur.
 * 1) Such a dynamic equilibrium or balance.

Usage notes
Not to be confused with hemostasis.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَجَانُس
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: гамеаста́з
 * Bulgarian: хомеоста́за, хомеоста́зис
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 恆定狀態, 恆定性, 體內平衡
 * Czech:
 * Danish: homøostase
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჰომეოსტაზი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: samvægi
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: hoiméastáis, aonstádas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 항상성(恆常性)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: hevsengiya navekî
 * Persian: هم‌ایستایی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: homeostáza
 * Slovene: homeostaza
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: гомеоста́з
 * Vietnamese: cân bằng nội môi, hằng tính nội môi

Etymology
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Etymology
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