homeostasis

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌhɒmɪə(ʊ)ˈsteɪsɪs/|/ˌhəʊmɪə(ʊ)ˈsteɪsɪs/    美 /ˌhoʊ.mi.oʊˈsteɪ.sɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ability of a system or living organism to adjust its internal environment to maintain a state of dynamic constancy; such as the ability of warm-blooded animals to maintain a stable temperature. countable,uncountable
    — His most important work concentrated on the complexities of chemical neurotransmission (for which Otto Loewi received a Nobel Prize in 1936) and on “homeostasis” (a term coined by Cannon in 1926), the maintenance of steady states in the body and the physiological processes through which they are regulated.
  2. Such a dynamic equilibrium or balance. countable,uncountable

词形变化

homeostases plural homoeostasis alternative homœostasis alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
dyshomeostasis homeostasome homeostatic immunohomeostasis metal homeostasis neurohomeostasis osmohomeostasis
相关词
stasis proteostasis

词源

Coined from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, the same”) + -stasis by Walter Bradford Cannon, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis, “standing, state”).
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