Term: autoregulation: (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
Candidate hypernym: organic process: a process occurring in living organisms → 1
Candidate hypernym: eater: someone who consumes food for nourishment → 0
Candidate hypernym: ignition: the act of setting something on fire → 0
Candidate hypernym: cat's-claw: erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida → 0
Candidate hypernym: cold: the sensation produced by low temperatures → 0
Candidate hypernym: hipposideridae: Old World leafnose bats → 0
Candidate hypernym: drumming: the act of playing drums → 0
Candidate hypernym: zoophilia: a sexual attraction to animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: filial love: the love of a child for a parent → 0
Candidate hypernym: sorption: the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) → 0
Candidate hypernym: pogonion: the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin → 0