homeostatic range

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1) homeostatic range.
This phrase is sometimes used in the text to mean "healthy normal range"
and sometimes used to mean unhealthy values with an unhealthy homeostatic
range. e.g., "in some cases, homeostasis can be lost and then re-gained at
a level that is clinically abnormal". The same word is being used to
describe a normal and an abnormal range.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by albertgo...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2009 at 3:32

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Further comments from Peter Robinson:
>Homeostasis is a process (like a thermostat, the Greek meaning
>something like to stand in the same place). Therefore, the definition
>
>Abnormal Homeostasis =def. Homeostasis that is
>clinically abnormal for an organism of a given type
>and age in a given environment.
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>also doesn't entirely make sense, because the homeostasis is working
>(just the thermostat has been adjusted up or down). I don't think
>there is abnormal homeostasis. Either you have it, or you will have
>an ongoing increase in say glucose concentration or temperature
>until you die. Or perhaps abnormal homeostasis would mean a tendency
>to overshoot following a perturbation.
>
>Therefore, what is needed is a phrase to describe "being within
>normal limits for x". Do we need a phrase other than
>"Normality"/"Abnormality" ?

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2009 at 3:34

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Currently, homeostasis is a bfo:disposition, but I agree with this early issue 
that 'homeostasis' names a process.  Perhaps we should rename to 'homeostatic 
disposition'.  

I also think we could subtype various flavors of human homeostasis, for 
example, thermoregulation 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_thermoregulation#Thermoregulation_in_humans

and in general some of the other processes found here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_homeostasis

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2011 at 4:52