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
New Edith Cavell Display now open. Come and see our new display dedicated to local heroine Edith Cavell, the British nurse executed 100 years ago for helping British and Allied troops escape from occupied Belgium. See the display in the rotunda, included with normal admission.