单词 | homoeothermic |
释义 | homoeothermicadj. Zoology. Maintaining an almost constant body temperature; warm-blooded; homothermous. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [adjective] > relating to thermogenesis > warm-blooded homoeothermal1870 homothermous1881 stenothermal1881 homoeothermic1889 homothermic1890 endothermic1946 tachymetabolic1974 1889 V. H. W. Wingrave Dunman's Gloss. Biol. Terms (rev. ed.) App. 175 Homœothermic,..of even temperature: applied to warm-blooded animals which maintain the same temperature, irrespective of that of the surrounding medium. 1891 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1890 407 Man, mammals, and birds are called creatures of equable temperature, homeothermic. 1903 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 195 37 Variation in production of heat is the ancestral method of homœothermic adjustment. 1928 A. S. Pearse & F. G. Hall Homoiothermism v. 33 Homoiothermic marine animals. 1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. xiv. 237 Not one true cavernicole is known among the homoiothermic vertebrates, that is to say the birds and mammals. 1966 New Statesman 11 Nov. 697/1 Man is a homoiothermic animal... When it is cold the body attempts to reduce heat loss. Derivatives ˈhomoeotherm n. a homoeothermic animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > thermogenesis > warm-blooded > warm-blooded animal homoeotherm1891 homotherm1934 1891 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1890 411 These phenomena, which are numerous and active in animals of the higher class (homeotherms), are much less so in cold-blooded animals. 1968 D. W. Wood Princ. Animal Physiol. viii. 123 In contrast to poikilotherms, homeotherms maintain their body temperature at a more or less constant level, irrespective of the environmental temperature. homoeoˈthermal adj. = homoeotherm n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [adjective] > relating to thermogenesis > warm-blooded homoeothermal1870 homothermous1881 stenothermal1881 homoeothermic1889 homothermic1890 endothermic1946 tachymetabolic1974 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 49 The warm-bloodedness or homoeothermal character of Birds. 1885 W. Stirling tr. L. Landois Text-bk. Human Physiol. I. vi. 426 Bergmann introduced the word homoiothermal animals for the warm-blooded animals. 1928 A. S. Pearse & F. G. Hall Homoiothermism v. 31 Homoiothermal animals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1870 |
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