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homœostatic, a.|hɒmiːəʊˈstætɪk|
Also homeo-.
[f. homœostasis, after stasis, static.]
Maintained by, involving, or effecting homœostasis; of or pertaining to homœostasis.
1926[see homœostasis]. 1929Physiol. Rev. IX. 401 The adjectival form, homeostatic, would apply to the physiological reactions or agencies or to the circumstances which relate to steady states in the organism. Ibid. 417 (heading) The homeostatic functions of hunger and thirst. 1955J. Z. Young in B. I. Evans Studies in Communication 93 Since man's special homeostatic machinery is mainly social, medicine may often be called upon to assist in correcting some social incapacity. 1959S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 13) ii. 22 The pressure within the eye is maintained at its homeostatic level despite considerable variations in the other factors which tend to alter it. 1961Lancet 2 Sept. 551/1 A general disturbance of the homœostatic mechanisms regulating immune tolerance. 1963R. P. Dales Annelids viii. 167 We are not yet certain about the nature of these homeostatic mechanisms which maintain the annelid body as a whole. 1964A. Rapoport in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. vi. 99 Man as a physico-chemical system in homeostatic equilibrium with the environment. 1964N. Wiener God & Golem vi. 87 The difficulties of establishing a really homeostatic regulation of society are not to be overcome by replacing one set pattern..by an equal and opposed set pattern of the same sort. 1971D. Watts Princ. Biogeogr. v. 230 Many populations have homeostatic mechanisms within them which are designed to maintain stability through reducing the number of species which are overspecialized.
Hence homœoˈstatically adv.
1959S. Beer Cybernetics & Management xv. 140 These two systems are linked homeostatically as mutually vetoing systems against the two managerial criteria. 1962J. C. Wynne-Edwards Animal Dispersion xv. 363 It is social integration that supplies the means of controlling population-density homeostatically. 1971Nature 22 Jan. 233/2 With the health sciences system and its environment homeostatically related. |