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Search Results for: stasis

Homeostasis

Homeostasis is the tendency not to stray from the range of favorable or ideal internal conditions. Such conditions must be... Read More

Stasis

stasis A word termination indicating the maintenance of (or maintaining) a constant level, preventing increase or... Read More

Metastasis

metastasis 1. (Science: cell biology, oncology) The transfer of disease from one organ or part to another not directly... Read More

Hemostasis

Definition noun, plural: hemostases The process of stopping or arresting bleeding or keeping the blood within the damaged... Read More

Punctuated equilibrium

Definition noun A theory that describes an evolutionary change happening rapidly and in brief geological events in between... Read More

A Look Into Natural Selection and its Mechanisms

Charles Darwin is credited with outlining the fundamentals of evolution. He was a smart and eager pupil and protégé,... Read More

Equilibrium

Definition noun, plural: equilibriums or equilibria (1) The condition in which all acting influences are balanced or... Read More

Statolith

Definition noun, plural: statoliths (zoology) An otolith, i.e. a crystalline particle of calcium carbonate and a protein... Read More