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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2013 Oct;3(4):1569–1610. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c130006

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Homeostatic definition of stress. Stress is defined as a condition or state in which there is a sensed discrepancy between afferent information and the homeostatic setting. The sensed discrepancy corresponds to the “error signal” in the computer model of a negative feedback loop.

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