tropostat

English

Etymology

From tropo- +‎ -stat.

Noun

tropostat

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    • 1994, Griffin, David H, Fungal physiology‎[1], page 207:
      Experiments with a device called a tropostat that maintains a constant incidence angle of the light beam on the sporangiophore as bending progresses resulted in continued bending.
    • 1999, Anesthesia & perioperative complications‎[2], St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, page 322:
      Control of the release of pituitary hormones is exerted primarily through closed-loop feedback inhibition, but the tropostat for hormone release is influenced by numerous factors from the internal milieu (e.g., stress, emotion, temperature, metabolic balance, osmolarity) as well as die external environment.
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