AUTOREGULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autoregulation mean? 

• AUTOREGULATION (noun)
  The noun AUTOREGULATION has 1 sense:

1. (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism

  Familiarity information: AUTOREGULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOREGULATION (noun)

Sense 1

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)