Medical term:

heterotherm


heterotherm

 [het´er-o-therm″]
an animal that exhibits heterothermy.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

het·er·o·therm

(het'ĕr-ō-thĕrm),
A heterothermic animal.
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heterotherm

(het?er-o-therm?)
An animal whose temperature varies considerably in different situations.
See: heterothermy
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heterotherm

see POIKILOTHERM.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

heterothermy

 [het´er-o-ther″me]
the exhibition of widely different body temperatures at different times or under different conditions, as in species that hibernate. adj., adj heterother´mic.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

heterothermy

(hĕt′ĕr-ō-thĕr″mē) [″ + therme, heat]
Condition in which an animal's temperature varies considerably in different situations but is not poikilothermic.
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