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AUTOREGULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("autoregulation" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)