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Homeostasis

Medical Definition: The processes whereby the internal environment of an organism tends to remain balanced and stable.
Homeostasis Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Feedback, Biochemical - A mechanism of communication among life processes to coordinate development, reproduction, and homeostasis. In humans, feedback loops are especially important for communication between organs that are spatially separated. Virtually all hormones from the nervous and endocrine systems are under feedback control: by peripheral hormones, cations, metabolites, osmolarity or extracellular fluid volume.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Heat-Shock Response - A constellation of responses that occur when an organism is exposed to excessive heat and other environmental stresses. Responses include synthesis of some proteins, repression of other proteins, and expression of new proteins. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

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