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self-reguˈlation
[self- 1 a.]
Regulation, control, or direction by or of oneself (itself); spec. in Biol. = homœostasis.
1693Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 196 'Tis a very considerable degree of Self-regulation for a Man to proceed thus far, not to enjoy, but only to use the World. 1879Dowden Southey ii. 29 His chief lesson was the large one of self-regulation. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 110 The muscular coats of the small arteries are..capable of self-regulation. 1912J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom i. 18 Protoplasm has primitively a great power of self-regulation. 1957― Relig. without Revelation (rev. ed.) ix. 215 There has been an enormous rise in level of harmonious organisation—think of a bird or a mammal as against a flatworm or a jellyfish; inflexibility and the capacity for self-regulation.
So self-ˈregulative a., self-ˈregulator, self-ˈregulatory a.
a1866Whewell (Ogilvie), *Self-regulative. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 110 The endothelium of the capillaries is..self-regulative.
1862Burton Bk.-Hunter 11 Any..peculiarity which may transfer them from the class of free *self-regulators to that of persons ‘under treatment’.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 239 An..adaptive *self-regulatory capacity. |