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• Walter B.

Cannon, 1929

• Coined the word Homeostasis to describe the regulation of the body’s internal
environment

• he selected the prefix homeo- (meaning like or similar) rather than the prefix homo-
(meaning same)

• Because the internal environment is maintained within a range of values rather


than at an exact fixed value.

• He also pointed out that the suffix -stasis

• in this instance means a condition, not a state that is static and unchanging.

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