An endotherm (Greek: endon = `within`, thermē = `heat`) is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favourable temperature, largely by the use of heat set free by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat. Such internally generated heat is mainly an incidental product of the animal`s routine...
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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 same rate. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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(en´do-thәrm″) an animal that exhibits endothermy. homeotherm.
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A warm-blooded animal; that is, an animal that maintains its body temperature at a relatively constant level regardless of the temperature of the environment.
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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 within a very narrow temperature range). Endotherm is ...
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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...
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An animal able to generate its own body heat and maintain a constant temperature regardless of its surroundings.
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`Warm-blooded`, or homeothermic, animal. Endotherms have internal mechanisms for regulating their body temperatures to levels different from the environmental temperature. See homeothermy
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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)
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a warm-blooded animal.
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