Everything in this flashcard set.
- homeostasis
- Metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via
- capillaries
- Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural)
- temperature
- How hot or cold something is
- evaporation
- The process of becoming a vapor
- receptors
- A cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent (plural)
- sweat
- Salty fluid secreted by ___ glands
- enzymes
- Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific (plural)
- denature
- To add nonfissionable material to so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb