Definitions
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- adjective of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature
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In physiology, he worked out the mechanism of the thermoregulation in homoiothermic animals.
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Bergmann suggested that they should be known as "homoiothermic" and
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Also, from work recently done by J.O. Wakelin Barratt, it has been shown that under certain pathological conditions a warm-blooded (homoiothermic) animal may become for a time cold-blooded (poikilothermic).
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Some key physical features: endothermic; homoiothermic; bilateral symmetry.
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