homoeostaticadj.

1926 W. B. Cannon in A. Pettit À Charles Richet 91 The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions...Special designations are therefore appropriate:—‘homeostasis’ to designate stability of the organism; ‘homeostatic conditions’ to indicate details of the stability; [etc.].

1929 Physiol. Rev. 9 401 The adjectival form, homeostatic, would apply to the physiological reactions or agencies or to the circumstances which relate to steady states in the organism.

1929 Physiol. Rev. 9 417 (heading) The homeostatic functions of hunger and thirst.

1955 J. 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.

1959 S. 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.

1961 Lancet 2 Sept. 551/1 A general disturbance of the homœostatic mechanisms regulating immune tolerance.

1963 R. 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.

1964 A. Rapoport in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. vi. 99 Man as a physico-chemical system in homeostatic equilibrium with the environment.

1964 N. 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.

1971 D. 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.

1959 S. Beer Cybernetics & Managem. xv. 140 These two systems are linked homeostatically as mutually vetoing systems against the two managerial criteria.

1962 V. C. Wynne-Edwards Animal Dispersion xv. 363 It is social integration that supplies the means of controlling population-density homeostatically.

1971 Nature 22 Jan. 233/2 With the health sciences system and its environment homeostatically related.