What is "homeostatic"

Usage examples of "homeostatic".

With different words, they helped her relearn that her body was an intricate mechanism made of interconnecting parts, a homeostatic system: change this, and this alters, which changes this.

The living, in fact, on such worlds was confined to homeostatic domes with their own at, wa, and self-regu temp.

In their normal state organisms are buffered against the effects of many internal and external changes by homeostatic regulatory devices.

Lest we get too proud of our position as part of the planetary cycle, through, let me remind you that the vast majority of the homeostatic regulation is done by bacteria.

All these homeostatic equilibria had been maintained by Gaia, the Earth mother in whom all living things, from sequoias to algae, whales to viruses, had their being.

These creatures, although fully as dependent on the homeostatic biosphere as other units of life, had nevertheless elevated themselves to a special category.

Since you made me homeostatic there was another imperative: to repair the malfunction.

They were highly specialized homeostatic mechanisms, capable of withstanding the most difficult environmental conditions.

Instead, he took from one of his belt pouches a trio of audio drones, already set by him to reproduce the nearly subliminal traces of his breath and other homeostatic functions.

Furtively, she inspected the homeostatic control box of the tractor, and picked at the frayed, partially incinerated insulation of one of its power cables.

Any nervous system complicated enough to operate the various homeostatic processes that are involved in upper-phylum life is too complicated to withstand this constant barrage of fear and trembling.

It had an inertial navigation device, as well as electronic sensors and various homeostatic systems, so it could cope with the normal vicissitudes of its environment.

Her brain damage had fouled up the homeostatic mechanisms that regulated her body temperature, and she was spiking fevers as high as 107.

As long as this world remained warm inside and the homeostatic slave intelligences continued to channel energy to the various systems, the base would live, its synthesizers producing air and foodstuffs, more than he would ever need.

For a while, people were imagining a new homeostatic end point, with temperatures hot enough to boil water.