Hypertext Webster Gateway: "homoiothermal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Homoiothermal \Ho*moi`o*ther"mal\, a. [Gr. ? like + E. thermal.]
(Physiol.)
Maintaining a uniform temperature; h[ae]matothermal;
homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they
maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great
variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the
cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature
follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding
medium.
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