Medical Terminology / Unit 13 MedTerm 0868 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Homeostasis
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The idea
Homeostasis is the maintenance of a stable internal state despite changes outside the body.
In practice
The root homeo names sameness, and the suffix stasis names holding steady.
Where people slip
Homeostasis names the maintaining, not any one measurement being maintained.
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