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adaptation
1. Change in an organism, in response to changing conditions of the environment (specifically chemical), which takes place without any irreversible disruptions of the given biological system and without exceeding normal (homeostatic) capacities of its response.
2. Process by which an organism stabilizes its physiological condition after an environmental change.
Note: If this process exceeds the homeostatic range, it becomes pathological and results in symptoms of disease (adverse effects).
- Partie du discours : noun
- Secteur d’activité/Domaine : Biologie; Chimie
- Catégorie : Toxicologie
- Company: National Library of Medicine
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- Walter Lane
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