AUTOREGULATION

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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