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endotherm
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Endotherm
Endotherm: An endotherm is a warm-blooded animal (such as homo sapiens). Another term for us warm-blooded creatures is homeotherm. An endotherm or homeotherm is as opposed to a poikilotherm (an organism such as a frog that is cold-blooded) and a stenotherm (a creature that can only survive only with... Found op http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.html?articlekey=9613
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Endotherm
An organism which is able to generate heat within itself to raise its body temperature significantly. Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryE.html
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endotherm
An organism which is capable of generating its own body heat and maintaining a constant body temperature, a warm-blooded organism. ... A graph which shows the difference in temperature between a test compound and a reference compound that is thermally inert, when the compounds are both heated at the... Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?endotherm
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endotherm
(en´do-thәrm″) an animal that exhibits endothermy. homeotherm. Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
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endotherm
endotherm A warm-blooded animal; such as, an organism that maintains its body temperature by producing heat within the body. Thermo Quiz #1 to check your thermo-word knowledge. Thermo Quiz #2 to check more of your thermo-word knowledge. Thermo Quiz #3 for additional thermo-words. Rela... Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/4265/4
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Endotherm
An endotherm is an organism that produces heat through internal means, such as muscle shivering or increasing its metabolism (Greek: endon = "within", thermē = "heat"). The opposite of endothermy is ectothermy. ==Mechanisms== ===Generating and conserving heat=== Many endotherms have a larger numbe... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endotherm
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endotherm
`Warm-blooded`, or homeothermic, animal. Endotherms have internal mechanisms for regulating their body temperatures to levels different from the environmental temperature. See homeothermy Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006802.html
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Endotherm
An animal that maintains its body temperature at a relatively constant level by physiological means regardless of the temperature of the environment (also called warm-blooded) Found op http://www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/herps/glossary.html
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