Get to know Homeostats better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Homeostats meaning
plural of homeostat
Using Homeostats
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of homeostat
- In the example corpus, homeostats often appears in combinations such as: homeostats the.
Context around Homeostats
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Homeostats
- In this selection, "homeostats" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, physiological, potassium, described and seem stand out and add context to how "homeostats" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and potassium homeostats seem to and homeostats are energy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "homeostats" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with homeostats
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In this view, the entire planet maintains several homeostats (the primary one being temperature homeostasis). (15 words)
The extracellular sodium concentration homeostat The sodium concentration homeostat is rather more complex than most of the other homeostats described on this page. (23 words)
Examples of some of the better understood physiological homeostats The core body temperature homeostat Thermal image of a cold-blooded tarantula ( ectothermic ) on a warm-blooded human hand ( endothermic ). (29 words)
Some of the homeostats have inbuilt redundancies, which insures that life is not immediately threatened if a component malfunctions; but in other cases malfunction of a homeostat causes severe disease, which can be fatal if not treated. (37 words)
The fact that the sodium and potassium homeostats seem to rely entirely on the same effector, but in opposite directions, implies that the body can only excrete potassium while retaining sodium, or vice versa. (34 words)
Examples of some of the better understood physiological homeostats The core body temperature homeostat Thermal image of a cold-blooded tarantula ( ectothermic ) on a warm-blooded human hand ( endothermic ). (29 words)
Example sentences (6)
Examples of some of the better understood physiological homeostats The core body temperature homeostat Thermal image of a cold-blooded tarantula ( ectothermic ) on a warm-blooded human hand ( endothermic ).
Homeostats are energy -consuming physiological mechanisms. citation The concept was described by French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1865 and the word was coined by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1926.
In this view, the entire planet maintains several homeostats (the primary one being temperature homeostasis).
Some of the homeostats have inbuilt redundancies, which insures that life is not immediately threatened if a component malfunctions; but in other cases malfunction of a homeostat causes severe disease, which can be fatal if not treated.
The extracellular sodium concentration homeostat The sodium concentration homeostat is rather more complex than most of the other homeostats described on this page.
The fact that the sodium and potassium homeostats seem to rely entirely on the same effector, but in opposite directions, implies that the body can only excrete potassium while retaining sodium, or vice versa.
Common combinations with homeostats
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: