It means keeping things constant and comes from two Greek words: 'homeo,' meaning 'similar,' and 'stasis,' meaning 'stable.' A more formal definition of homeostasis is a characteristic of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, relatively constant condition of properties.
Edith is a female given name, derived from the Old English words ead, meaning 'riches or blessed ', and gyÃ°, meaning 'war', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form, also a common name in French, is Ãdith. Ã©dith
Edith was the type of woman who believed that her place was in the home, her responsibility to her family, and to let her husband be the public face of the family (not hard wh â¦ en you're married to Theodore Roosevelt).