Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Self-regulation.
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- noun biology Any of several
physiological processes in which aninhibitory feedback systemcounteracts change. - noun The process that maintains a
constant flow ofblood to anorgan despite changes inarterial pressure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
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Examples
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That balancing act is called autoregulation and keeps your blood pressure relatively normal.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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That balancing act is called autoregulation and keeps your blood pressure relatively normal.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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That balancing act is called autoregulation and keeps your blood pressure relatively normal.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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This dynamic regulation of cerebrovascular resistance maintains a constant CBF in the CPP range between 50 mm Hg to 150 mm Hg and is called autoregulation (Fig. 3) [59,60].
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In this study, investigators are using a novel optical imaging technique to investigate cerebrovascular autoregulation in preterm infants.
Clinical Trials 2010
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But excess blood glucose negates and destroys this autoregulation system, thus taxing your arteries more heavily.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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But excess blood glucose negates and destroys this autoregulation system, thus taxing your arteries more heavily.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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But excess blood glucose negates and destroys this autoregulation system, thus taxing your arteries more heavily.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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Failure of cerebral autoregulation as a cause of brain dysfunction in the elderly.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Positive autoregulation with no coding variation generated about the same proportion of overdominance for the sign motifs [0 0 +], [0 + +]
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010
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