Medical Definition of Homeostatic lag

1. The interval in a homeostatic process between a change of the trait controlled and the appropriate response, due to afferent, efferent, and central components. The lag may be a pure random variable, e.g., the waiting time of an exponential process or the sum of several such processes taking any value greater than zero but with a mean considerably greater than zero; sometimes it may be deterministic or almost so and with a minimum sharply defined and greater than zero for anatomical reasons. For instance, the partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide are controlled in the lungs but based on afferent information obtained from the carotid body that is already dated because of the circulation time of ten seconds or so between the two sites. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homeostatic Lag

homeophone
homeophones
homeophony
homeoplasia
homeoplastic
homeoprophylaxis
homeoprotein
homeorhesis
homeorrhesis
homeoses
homeosis
homeostases
homeostasis
homeostatic
homeostatic equilibrium
homeostatic lag (current term)
homeostatically
homeotherapeutic
homeotherapy
homeotherm
homeothermal
homeothermic
homeothermies
homeotherms
homeothermy
homeotic
homeotic gene
homeotic genes
homeotic mutant
homeotic mutation

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