This is referred to as a homeostatic system. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
First, you free yourself of the homeostatic delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Evolutionary Fitness « Isegoria] Reference
The absorption is normally regulated by homeostatic mechanisms. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
There must be numerous homeostatic adjustments required of cells. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference
The goal of this exercise is to get your mind back to a homeostatic state. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Ali Binazir: Addiction Recovery: Why We're Addicted to Negative Behaviors] Reference
Emotions, mind, and even the self are ingredients of a homeostatic system. From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
This interferes with the homeostatic mechanism described, resulting in anemia. From Wordnik.com. [Homeostasis] Reference
Its homeostatic devices had repaired the damage, restored 'the racks of flares. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
At about the same time, they become homeostatic and homeothermic, as mammals are. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
A.D. Craig 2003 claims on scientific grounds that pains are homeostatic emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Pain] Reference
Plasma phenylalanine levels are not regulated by any known homeostatic mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Santa Fe Pediatrician Regales Hawaii Legislative Committee with Dangers of Aspartame] Reference
The major central homeostatic controls are the nervous system and endocrine system. From Wordnik.com. [Homeostasis] Reference
The pituitary is a very important regulator of the homeostatic function of the liver. From Wordnik.com. [Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Social outcomes are more often stochastic than being guided by homeostatic mechanisms. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
These "homeostatic mechanisms" cause the members of a species to have similar features. From Wordnik.com. [Species] Reference
That's the thing about the body, it's a very complicated, homeostatic feedback mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium Evening Transcript Informatics Meets Genomics] Reference
The affected cells grow and multiply destroying the delicate homeostatic balance of life. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanette Aileen Fuller: The Truth About End of Life Care] Reference
"The body's homeostatic drive for sleep can seize control involuntarily," says Dr. Czeisler. From Wordnik.com. [Asleep at the Wheel: Waking Up] Reference
On the one hand, biology equips the individual with response systems constrained by homeostatic laws. From Wordnik.com. [Horror, High and Low (pt. 2)] Reference
Not even homeostatic, merely programmed to respond to his mass-sensed presence with a recorded lecture. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
In living things, growth, division, metabolism, responsiveness are integrated into a homeostatic whole. From Wordnik.com. [A Minimal Genome] Reference
The entire collection of homeostatic processes governs life moment by moment in every cell of our bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-14] Reference
And when all that stabilizes into some kind of crudely homeostatic planetary ecology, we send human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Language in society must be a homeostatic system if societies are to cohere, if unum is to be formed e pluribus. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Languages] Reference
As for the scientific hypothesis that emotions are primarily mechanisms for homeostatic maintenance-- well, maybe. From Wordnik.com. [UNDERSTANDING COMICS: From vision to narrative? (cont.)] Reference
My connection between the homeostatic theories of emotions and digestion may be exaggerated, but it is not frivolous. From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
An alternative to the essentialist conception is the homeostatic property cluster theory of natural kinds (Millikan 1999). From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
It is arguable that similar explanations, having both causal and teleological force, figure already in specifically homeostatic. From Wordnik.com. [Action] Reference
Stress can be described as a factor that stimulates homeostatic, physiological and behavioural responses in excess of the norm. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Eventually, they become true adults, a very advanced type of reptile, marsupial, bipedal, homeostatic -- and highly intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
It isn't until the food's goneconsiderably laterdo you feel full because the reward circuits are overriding the homeostatic circuits. From Wordnik.com. [Louise McCready: Dr. David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating, On Why We Can't Stop Eating] Reference
"If you are of normal weight, your homeostatic mechanisms are functioning and controlling this region of the brain," says lead investigator. From Wordnik.com. [Eating to Live or Living to Eat?] Reference
Quamodian followed the sound, and doors opened before him as the homeostatic dwelling invited him in, up a moving slideramp, to a roof garden. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
His suit, aircycler, and other outfitting were of small mass and close fit, homeostatic, power-jointed, tactile-amplifying, well-nigh a second skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Given such variation, what causes organisms with different traits and exposed to different homeostatic mechanisms to be members of the same species?. From Wordnik.com. [Species] Reference
Thanks to the activity of our brain and nerves, these motions are self-regulating and homeostatic, responsive to bodily feedback and external stimuli. From Wordnik.com. [David Hartley] Reference
It had an inertial navigation device, as well as electronic sensors and various homeostatic systems, so it could cope with the normal vicissitudes of its environment. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
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