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Record 1 2006-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
DEF

[Having to do with homeorhesis, that is] the tendency to maintain a biological process... along a particular pathway despite the operation of factors tending to divert it.

CONT

A dynamic mechanistic model of homeorhetic and homeostatic controls of pig growth was developed. The homeorhetic principles were based on changes in time of fractional rates of anabolism and catabolism of tissues.

PHR

Homeorhetic action, change, control, effect, principle, process, regulation, response.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
CONT

Ainsi, la régulation homéorhétique implique la coordination du métabolisme pour assurer un débit uniforme d'éléments nutritifs vers une fonction physiologique prioritaire telle que la production de lait durant l'allaitement.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

An operation tending to restrict the free flow of excitations, to link ideas to one another and to constitute and maintain relatively stable forms.

OBS

Term used by Freud in a very general way and on comparatively distinct levels (as much on the biological level as on that of the psychical apparatus ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Opération tendant à limiter le libre écoulement des excitations, à relier les représentations entre elles, à constituer et à maintenir des formes relativement stables.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
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