Homeostasis - Maintaining Constant Internal Environment
Homeostasis
Key points
- Homeostasis is the tendency to resist change in order to maintain a stable, relatively constant internal environment.
- Homeostasis typically involves negative feedback loops that counteract changes of various properties from their target values, known as set points.
- In contrast to negative feedback loops, positive feedback loops amplify their initiating stimuli, in other words, they move the system away from its starting state.
- Definition: Merriam- Webster Dictionary;
- ho·meo·sta·sis ˌhō-mē-ō-ˈstā-səs
- : a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group
- striving to achieve homeostasis
- homeostatic
- adjective
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