单词 | animal heat |
释义 | > as lemmasanimal heat animal heat n. now chiefly historical the heat generated within the bodies of living animals. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > temperature and regulation > [noun] > normal temperature heat1340 warmth1599 animal heat1603 body temperature1865 normothermia1898 1603 A. Munday tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens f. 24v In the earth there is a moisture, & in the moisture is a spirit, and in this great substance, is the animall heat, to the end that all things should be somewhat full of soule. 1779 A. Crawford Exper. & Observ. Animal Heat iv. 81 Animal heat depends, indirectly, upon a change which the blood undergoes in the course of the circulation. 1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xli. 411 The whole of the animal heat is derived from the combustion of the materials of the body. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering i. 9 After slaughter the animal heat leaves the carcass. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 81 Helmholtz devoted himself to the measurement of animal heat and the velocity of nerve conduction. < as lemmas |
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