what does this word mean?

Question

what does the word homeostatic mean?

got write an essay on the skin and the homeostatic nature of its repair following an injury.

Answer 1

"staying the same"

Homeostasis is the process by which the body keeps body temperature, blood sugar, salt levels etc constant

Answer 2

Homeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment to maintain a stable, constant condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments, controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms. The term was coined in 1932 by Walter Cannon from the Greek homoios (same, like, resembling) and stasis (to stand, posture).

Answer 3

Biological homeostasis

Homeostasis is one of the fundamental characteristics of living things. It is the maintenance of the internal environment within tolerable limits.

The internal environment of a living organism's body features body fluids in multicellular animals. The body fluids include blood plasma, tissue fluid and intracellular fluid. The maintenance of a steady state in these fluids is essential to living things as the lack of it harms the genetic material.

With regard to any parameter, an organism may be a conformer or a regulator. Regulators try to maintain the parameter at a constant level, regardless of what is happening in its environment. Conformers allow the environment to determine the parameter. For instance, endothermic animals maintain a constant body temperature, while ectothermic animals exhibit wide variation in body temperature.

This is not to say that conformers may not have behavioral adaptations that allow them to exert some control over the parameter in question. For instance, reptiles often sit on sun-heated rocks in the morning to raise their body temperatures.

An advantage of homeostatic regulation is that it allows the organism to function more effectively. For instance, ectotherms tend to become sluggish at low temperatures, whereas endotherms are as active as always. On the other hand, regulation requires energy. One reason snakes are able to eat just once a week is that they use much less energy for maintaining homeostasis.
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Homeostasis in the human body

All sorts of factors affect the suitability of the human body fluids to sustain life; these include properties like temperature, salinity, and acidity, and the concentrations of nutrients such as glucose, various ions, oxygen, and wastes, such as carbon dioxide and urea. Since these properties affect the chemical reactions that keep bodies alive, there are built-in physiological mechanisms to maintain them at desirable levels.

Homeostasis is not the reason for these ongoing unconscious adjustments. It should be thought of as a general characterization of many normal processes in concert, not their proximal cause. Moreover, there are numerous biological phenomena which do not conform to this model, such as anabolism.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You obviously now know that the homeostatic qualities of something enable it to be self-regulating. However, this was the part of your question that got me thinking:

got write an essay on the skin and the homeostatic nature of its repair following an injury.

I looked up homeostatic on Wiki (where else!).
I then looked up skin. This led me to scar tissue.

Having read these, I would suggest that the homeostatic properties of skin enable it to self-repair when you have an injury (for example, with scabs when you cut yourself). However, the skin cannot recover to its original condition (except in minor injuries) which is why it scars.

Now all you have to do is turn this into an essay!

Answer 6

Homeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment to maintain a stable, constant condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments, controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms

Answer 7

The term is most often used in the sense of biological homeostasis. Multicellular organisms require a homeostatic internal environment, in order to live; some ecologists believe this principle also applies to the global environment

Answer 8

In medicine it means to normalise blood pressure, temperature and pulse rate.

In the dictionary-

The ability or tendency of an organism or cell to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes

Answer 9

ho‧me‧o‧sta‧sis 

–noun 1. the tendency of a system, esp. the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus tending to disturb its normal condition or function.
2. Psychology. a state of psychological equilibrium obtained when tension or a drive has been reduced or eliminated.

Answer 10

Homeostasis :

he tendency of a system, esp. the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus tending to disturb its normal condition or function.

Answer 11

homeostasis |ˌhōmēəˈstāsis| noun ( pl. -ses |-sēz|) the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, esp. as maintained by physiological processes.

DERIVATIVES homeostatic |-ˈstatik| adjective