Heinz Guderian L.

Villanueva

Greek term meaning same state is the maintenance of constant conditions in the internal environment of the body despite large swings in the external environment

The body's homeostatically cultivated systems are maintained by negative feedback mechanisms. sometimes called negative feedback loops any change or deviation from the normal range of function is opposed, or resisted.

The change or deviation in the controlled value initiates responses that bring the function of the organ or structure back to within the normal range. Negative feedback loops require a receptor, a control center, and an effector.

A structure that monitors the body's internal functions and conditions; detects changes in the body's internal environment.

The center that receives messages from receptors about a change in the body's internal conditions and relays messages to effectors to change their function to correct the deviation; in most homeostatic mechanisms, the control center is the brain.

A muscle or organ that receives messages from the control center to change its function in order to correct a deviation in the body's internal conditions.

The range of normal functional values of an organ or structure.

Chemical regulator of physiology, growth, or development which is typically synthesized in one region of the body and active in another and is typically active in low concentrations.

A mechanism that increases or enlarges a change in the body's internal conditions.