L0 - Course Intro

Question 1

Homeostasis

Answer 1

maintenance of nearly constant conditions in the internal environment

Question 2

Clause Bernard

Answer 2

• referred to homeostasis as “Milieu interieur” a.k.a. the “internal environment”
• father of physiology

Question 3

Walter Cannon

Answer 3

• coined homeostasis and fight or flight
• first to use x-rays in physiological studies for empirical data