A topic within Physiology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Biology.
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Walter B. Cannon
Argues that the body's many self-correcting mechanisms — for temperature, blood sugar, blood pressure and more — are instances of one general regulatory principle, which Cannon names homeostasis.
Walter B. Cannon
Sets out, before the book that popularised it, the criteria a bodily control system must meet to count as homeostatic — a stored reserve, a sensing mechanism, and a corrective response.
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