MEANING
Maintenance of relatively stable internal conditions through regulating processes.
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- maintain homeostasis
- physiological homeostasis
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The toxin disrupted homeostasis.
Feedback mechanisms restored physiological homeostasis.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural homeostases for distinct regulatory systems. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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