HOMEOSTATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homeostatic mean? 

• HOMEOSTATIC (adjective)
  The adjective HOMEOSTATIC has 1 sense:

1. related to or characterized by homeostasis

  Familiarity information: HOMEOSTATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMEOSTATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Related to or characterized by homeostasis

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

homeostasis ((physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes)

Derivation:

homeostasis ((physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes)

 Context examples 

Non-Voltage-Dependent Calcium Channels are membrane-associated protein-based structures that regulate the movement of calcium ions through cellular membranes, independent of the transmembrane potential gradient, to affect cellular homeostatic conditions and/or signaling processes.

(Non-Voltage-Dependent Calcium Channel, NCI Thesaurus)

Ion Channel Proteins typically aggregate in membrane-associated complexes forming pores whose activities regulate the movement of ions through cellular membranes to affect cellular homeostatic conditions and/or signaling processes.

(Ion Channel Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Cellular or subcellular processes involved with significant disturbance from a homeostatic condition.

(Cellular Stress, NCI Thesaurus)

Cellular or subcellular processes involved in restoration of a homeostatic condition.

(Cellular Stress Response, NCI Thesaurus)

Cellular or subcellular processes involved in disturbance or restoration of a homeostatic condition.

(Cell Stress Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Further experiments showed that the homeostatic mechanism worked specifically in the reward circuit running from the VTA to cells in a brain area called the nucleus accumbens.

(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)

Important homeostatic mechanisms in the maintenance of blood pH include the buffering action of bicarbonate, and the actions of the renal-respiratory system.

(pH Homeostasis, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF1) is a transcription factor found in mammalian cells cultured under reduced oxygen tension that plays an essential role in cellular and systemic homeostatic responses to hypoxia.

(Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Host Defenses against pathology include physical barriers to pathogens, immediate nonspecific and constitutive (innate) defenses, specific inducible immune responses, metabolic and physiologic homeostatic mechanisms, detoxification, repair processes, and healing mechanisms.

(Host Defense, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings suggest that this approach may be appropriate for some disease scenarios, but may induce complex responses in other disease scenarios by inhibiting helpful and homeostatic functions of inflammation.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)