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Positive Feedback Is Self-Limiting by Design
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A healthy positive feedback loop, per Bio 2751, runs only until an event — childbirth, a formed clot — halts it, not to a runaway extreme.
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Uterine contractions escalate under oxytocin, per Bio 2751, but delivery removes the stimulus that sustained the loop.
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"Positive feedback means malfunction," per Bio 2753, ignores that the endpoint is built into the trigger.