What is meant by homeostasis?
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DEFINITION OF HOMEOSTASIS
Homeostasis is a Greek word in which 'homeo' means same and 'stasis' means steady.
- It refers to any process that living things use to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival.
- In human body, Homeostasis is the tendency to resist change in order to maintain a stable, relatively constant internal environment.
- Homeostasis is important to human body because conditions in the body must be constantly controlled because cells depends on body's environment to live and function
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- Shivering in winter and sweating in summer.
- Excretion of toxins through urine.
- Insulin secretion in our body to regulate glucose levels.
- Exhalation of more or less carbon dioxide out of diaphragm to maintain pH amount in body.
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