Question 1

how tyroiditis disturb homeostasis?

Accepted Answer

Metabolism: Imagine your thyroid as the furnace heating your home.  The temperature is controlled by the thermostat (pituitary gland).  When the heater or thermostat malfunctions by providing too much or too little heat, it makes your life miserable. In human, it equates to how much energy your body can put out. Too much would exhaust your fuel supply too quickly, too little makes your energy sluggish.

Question 2

how do rickets disrupt homeostasis in the body?

Accepted Answer

Vit D deficiency: Rickets is the bony manifestation of vitamin d deficiency in childhood. Vit d deficiency has many effects. The incidence of vit d insufficiency  has doubled from 1994 to 2004. An air pollutant, cadmium, which has become more toxic since the removal of lead from gasoline breaks  down 25-oh vitamin d.  Low calcium, phosphorus, elevated alkaline phosphatase , neuromuscular irritability  result.

Question 3

does the body try to maintain constant temperature as part of homeostasis?

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Shivering, sweating: Shivering is the main defense against cold; the muscles produce heat by shaking you.  Sweating causes evaporative cooling.

Question 4

is acne an activity of homeostasis?

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Yes and no: Pretty much everything your body does is intended to keep it working. This includes fighting off bacteria. In acne, the teen environment allows them to grow and the response is perhaps overaggressive. As in real-life, things intended to help often turn dysfunctional. Give the answer you think your teachers wants. Acne's treatable.

Question 5

is keeping constant weight part of homeostasis?

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Yes if its healthy: Maintaining an ideal body weight is critical for health.  When we have too much fat, our body becomes inefficient.  The nih just showed that in an obese person, 100cal is not 100cal but probably more b/c the body just stops functioning well.  Hormonal disruption can occur, inflammation starts and starts this negative spiral downwards towards disease.  Maintain a healthy weight & stop many diseases.

Question 6

how does inflammation help maintain homeostasis?

Accepted Answer

No relation: Homeostasis refers to physiologic balance in our body. Inflammation does not!

Question 7

how do diseases of pregnancy interrupt homeostasis?

Accepted Answer

?homeostasis: Don 't know what you mean. During pregnancy you are feeding your growing infant. Most diseases of pregancy are due to lousy diet that is so common in U.S. E.G. Nausea and vomiting is diet related and so is toxemia. It is hardly surprising that the fetus is affected. So some common conditions in infants are actually set up during the pregnancy.

Question 8

how does decompression sickness affect homeostasis?

Accepted Answer

Not at all: Probably not at all, after symptoms are gone.

Question 9

is maintaining constant heartrate part of homeostasis?

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Part of it: The heart rate resting tells how well you are functioningt. The heart is like a machine, the more work it has to do, the faster it will stop working. The better functioning it is with a low resting heart rate (not something so low that it causes symptoms), the faster you recovery from exercise, the better shape you are which signals the better balance you have internally.

Question 10

how does negative feedback in the body maintain homeostasis?

Accepted Answer

Compensatory: Mechanism. The body attains to maintain balance.

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