loading...| Preferred Name | homeostasis | |
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A disposition of the whole organism (or of some causally relatively isolated part of the organism, such as a single cell) to regulate its bodily processes in such a way as (1) to maintain bodily qualities within a certain range or profile and (2) to respond successfully to departures from this range caused by internal influences or environmental influences such as poisoning. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OGMS_0000032 |
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Albert Goldfain Werner Ceusters Barry Smith Richard H. Scheuermann |
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creation date: 2009-06-23T11:22:01Z |
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| definition source |
Scheuermann RH, Ceusters W, Smith B. Toward an ontological treatment of disease and diagnosis. Summit on translational bioinformatics. 2009;2009:116. Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041577/ |
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homeostasis |
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OGMS:0000032 |
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homeostasis |
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Albert Goldfain Werner Ceusters Barry Smith Richard H. Scheuermann |
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| textual definition |
A disposition of the whole organism (or of some causally relatively isolated part of the organism, such as a single cell) to regulate its bodily processes in such a way as (1) to maintain bodily qualities within a certain range or profile and (2) to respond successfully to departures from this range caused by internal influences or environmental influences such as poisoning. |
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