"homostatic" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "homo- + static",
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          "ref": "W. P. Longmire, J. National Cancer Institute, 14, 669",
          "text": "The term homostatic graft might be applied to inert tissues such as bone and cartilage when transferred from one individual to another of the same species; and the term homovital graft might be used in reference to grafts whose cells must continue to grow and reproduce for the graft to be effective after similar transplantation."
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          "ref": "H. Conway, The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association, 13, 43",
          "text": "These grafts persist however as homostatic grafts and are completely replaced by host tissues in time."
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        "Describing homografts which are inert when transplanted into the recipient."
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  "word": "homostatic"
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          "text": "The term homostatic graft might be applied to inert tissues such as bone and cartilage when transferred from one individual to another of the same species; and the term homovital graft might be used in reference to grafts whose cells must continue to grow and reproduce for the graft to be effective after similar transplantation."
        },
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