Shock researcher Walter Cannon coined this word for an organism's ability to maintain internal equilibrium
[DOC] [TLE] Stress (biology) - Wikipedia [PAR] Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as 
an .... Research suggests chronic stress at a young age can have lifelong effects 
on the ... Walter Cannon used it in 1926 to refer to external factors that disrupted 
what he ...