bloodheat

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English

Etymology

blood +‎ heat

Noun

bloodheat (uncountable)

  1. The temperature of the body of a living mammal.
    • 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 137, page 5:
      From this, you may judge of the enervating effect of this climate, being 5 deg. above bloodheat, and if it were always so, it would be indeed unbearable []
    • 1870, British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, volume 46, page 147:
      Warmth, if less than bloodheat would cool the body quickly, by dilating the superficial capillaries, and allowing rapid conduction, while, at the same time, there is further heat abstraction in the consequent increase of more than one secretion.

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