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 homo (same, like) and stasis (to stand, posture). Homeostasis - Overview. The term is most often used in the sense of biological homeostasis. Multicellular organisms require a hom ...

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Homeostasis - Properties of homeostasis Homeostasis - Mechanisms of homeostasis: feedback
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Homeostasis - Homeostasis in the human body
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Homeostasis, Homeostasis - Overview, Homeostasis - Properties of homeostasis, Homeostasis - Mechanisms of homeostasis: feedback, Homeostasis - Ecological homeostasis, Homeostasis - Biological homeostasis, Homeostasis - Homeostasis in the human body, Homeostasis - Other fields, Homeostasis - Examples

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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 livin ...

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Homeostasis, Homeostasis - Overview, Homeostasis - Properties of homeostasis, Homeostasis - Mechanisms of homeostasis: feedback, Homeostasis - Ecological homeostasis, Homeostasis - Biological homeostasis, Homeostasis - Homeostasis in the human body, Homeostasis - Other fields, Homeostasis - Examples

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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 homo (same, like) and stasis (to stand, posture). Homeostasis - Overview. The term is most often used in the sense of biological homeostasis. Multicellular organisms require a hom ...

Including:

Homeostasis - Overview
Homeostasis - Mechanisms of homeostasis: feedback
Homeostasis - Ecological homeostasis Homeostasis - Biological homeostasis
Homeostasis - Homeostasis in the human body
Homeostasis - Other fields
Homeostasis - Examples

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The most robust and unambiguous examples of self-organizing systems are from physics, where the concept was first noted. Self-organization is also relevant in chemistry, where it has often been taken as being synonymous with self-assembly. The concept of self-organization is central to the description of biological systems, from the subcellular to the ecosystem level. There are also cited examples of "self-organizing" behaviour found in the literature of many other disciplines, both in the natural sciences and the social sciences such as economics or anthropology. Self-organization has also been observed in m ...

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Self-organization, Self-organization - Overview, Self-organization - History of the idea, Self-organization - Examples, Self-organization - Self-organization in physics, Self-organization - Self-organization in chemistry, Self-organization - Self-organization in biology, Self-organization - Self-organization in mathematics and computer science, Self-organization - Self-organization in human society

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The idea that the dynamics of a system can tend by themselves to increase the inherent order of a system has a long history. One of the earliest statements of this idea was by the philosopher Descartes, in the fifth part of his Discourse on Method, where he presents it hypothetically. Descartes further elaborated on the idea at great length in a book called Le Monde that was never published. The ancient atomists (among others) believed that a designing intelligence was unnecessary, arguing that given enough time and spac ...

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The following list summarizes and classifies the instances of self-organization found in different disciplines. As the list grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine whether these phenomena are all fundamentally the same process, or the same label applied to several different processes. Self-organization, despite its intuitive simplicity as a concept, has proven notoriously difficult to define and pin down formally or mathematically, and it is entirely possible that any precise definition might not include all the ...

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Self-organization, Self-organization - Overview, Self-organization - History of the idea, Self-organization - Examples, Self-organization - Self-organization in physics, Self-organization - Self-organization in chemistry, Self-organization - Self-organization in biology, Self-organization - Self-organization in mathematics and computer science, Self-organization - Self-organization in human society

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Homeostasis - The maintenance of steady states (well or healthy states) in the organism by coordinated physiological processes.

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The term has come to be used in other fields, as well. An actuary may refer to "risk homeostasis", where (for example) people who have anti-lock brakes have no better safety record than those without anti-lock brakes, because they unconsciously compensate for the safer vehicle via less-safe driving habits. Previously certain manoeuvres involved minor skids, evoking fear and avoidance: now the anti-lock system moves the boundary for such feedback and behaviour patte ...

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Homeostasis, Homeostasis - Overview, Homeostasis - Properties of homeostasis, Homeostasis - Mechanisms of homeostasis: feedback, Homeostasis - Ecological homeostasis, Homeostasis - Biological homeostasis, Homeostasis - Homeostasis in the human body, Homeostasis - Other fields, Homeostasis - Examples

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