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homeostatic

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for homeostatic.

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One of the purposes of the kidneys is to maintain homeostatic blood pressure by excreting a combination of salt and water.

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Quick take

(biology, physiology) Of or pertaining to homeostasis.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(biology, physiology) Of or pertaining to homeostasis.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for homeostatic.

adjective

(biology, physiology) Of or pertaining to homeostasis.

Example sentences

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One of the purposes of the kidneys is to maintain homeostatic blood pressure by excreting a combination of salt and water.

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Third, the body is a powerfully homeostatic system, even had he not ate for two weeks, most of the labs he got would stay the same.

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Fasting not only deprives cancer cells of nutrients, but also triggers a homeostatic response in the entire body.

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Controlling who reproduces at what rate and to what homeostatic set-point is a pretty big preoccupation of the body's order.

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Mitochondrial diseases don't seem like an easy target because they are really metabolic and homeostatic disorders, which are very complex.

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We are responsible for homeostatic regulation as well as fundamental, reactive survival instincts and processes.

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As time goes on in a homeostatic environment, you'd expect fewer records on either end.

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Wasn't there a Linux kernel contributor with a medical background who used to push unsuccessfully for it to have more self-tuning/homeostatic behaviour?

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When a process has homeostatic feedback, it can absorb some change with no result.

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Before anyone else thought of it, Buffett developed a Homeostatic operation that collected insurance premiums and then invested that float in other companies...

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Such systems are homeostatic, i.e., the effects of small changes of input will be negated and the steady state maintained by reversible adjustment.

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No mammal simply hoards every calorie it can get without homeostatic feedback.

Quote examples

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Yep, and when your kidneys can't do that and you get into homeostatic imbalance you don't "get high blood pressure", you get organ damage.

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It doesn’t tell the AI what to say, it forces the LLM to process the Users “Data-point” through the homeostatic filter (Pain // Self-defence // Proxy-Pain) AI model issues: (The Copilot issue) Google Gemini plays nicely with the logic-funneling.

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I’ve gone the opposite way: I'm attempting to escape "contextual" logic by honing into the antecedent homeostatic mechanisms where context is just an emergent derivative of core biological "Is" statements.

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According to the author, the United States indeed "walks like a duck and talks like a duck," to the extent that it is homeostatic (feeds itself, defends itself, undertakes coordinated actions such as trade embargoes) and large scale information transfer does occur between its constituent subsystems (humans, say).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use homeostatic in a sentence?

One of the purposes of the kidneys is to maintain homeostatic blood pressure by excreting a combination of salt and water.

What does homeostatic mean?

(biology, physiology) Of or pertaining to homeostasis.

What part of speech is homeostatic?

homeostatic is commonly used as adjective.