Term Information

Accession
GO:0050891
Name
multicellular organismal-level water homeostasis
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
multicellular organismal water homeostasis, body fluid osmoregulation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A chemical homeostatic process involved in the maintenance of a steady state level of water within extracellular body fluids, such as blood, xylem or phloem, of a multicellular organism. This is distinct from maintenance of cellular homeostasis, which occurs within a cell. Source: GOC:dph, GOC:tb
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0050891 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of multicellular organismal-level water homeostasis (GO:0050891)
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multicellular organismal-level water homeostasis [is_a relation] is_a  multicellular organismal-level chemical homeostasis (GO:0140962)
multicellular organismal-level water homeostasis [is_a relation] is_a  regulation of body fluid levels (GO:0050878)
Children of multicellular organismal-level water homeostasis (GO:0050891)
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renal water homeostasis (GO:0003091) [is_a relation] is_a  multicellular organismal-level water homeostasis
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