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Fig. 11 Homeostasis examples.
Fig. 12 Human temperature homeostasis. (The figure has been adopted from
Abozenadah, H., et al., 2018. Allied Health Chemistry, Foundations of General, Organic,
and Biological Chemistry.)
automatically having negative feedback. More details about the regulation
process of temperature in the human body can be found in Benzinger
(1969). Fig. 13 explains the control of body temperature by the hypothalamus
causing constriction or dilation of skin capillaries and sweat production.
