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adaptation: the biological, psychological and physical alterations in a living organism or community in order to adjust to a particular environment; the process (es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals),populations, or species change in structure, form or function in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions; any adjustment of an organism to the conditions of its environment
Category: Medicine

adaptation: a) the process(es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals),populations, or species change in structure, form or function in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions; b) also the resultant structure, form or function
Category: Botany and zoology

adaptation: result of the biological, psychological and physical alterations in a living organism or community in order to adjust to a particular environment ; the resultant structure, form or function of the process (es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals), populations, or species change in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions
Category: Medicine

adaptation: the alteration of the selective response of a neural unit due to the received signals
Category: Medicine

adaptation: the ability of a variety to derive the necessities for its favourable development in a given environment
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

adaptation: the process by which the properties of the organ of vision are modified according to the luminances or the colour stimuli presented to it,or the final state of the process
Category: Medicine

adaptation: temporary modification of sensitivity in perceiving sensory stimuli due to continous,repeated exposure to a given stimulus or one similar to it
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

adaptation: the decline in the frequency of firing of a neuron,particularly of a receptor,under conditions of constant stimulation
Category: Medicine

dysadaptation: 2)lack of,or defective,adjustment of the visual mechanism to variations in light intensity
Category: Medicine

re-adaptation: combined and coordinated use of medical,social,educational and vocational measures for training or retraining the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability
Category: Medicine

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