Homeostatic vs Homostatic - What's the difference?
homeostatic | homostatic |
Of or pertaining to homeostasis .
Describing homografts which are inert when transplanted into the recipient.
* W. P. Longmire, J. National Cancer Institute , 14, 669:
* H. Conway, The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Assocation , 13, 43:
As adjectives the difference between homeostatic and homostatic
is that homeostatic is of or pertaining to homeostasis while homostatic is describing homografts which are inert when transplanted into the recipient.homeostatic
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Adjective
(head)- Multicellular organisms require a homeostatic internal environment, in order to live. (from Wikipedia article, )
See also
Wikipedia article:homostatic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The term homostatic graft might be applied to inert tissues such as bone and cartilage when transferred from one individual to another of the same species; and the term homovital graft'' might be used in reference to grafts whose cells must continue to grow and reproduce for the graft to be effective after similar transplantation .
- These grafts persist however as homostatic grafts and are completely replaced by host tissues in time.