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Definition of Body temperature

1. Noun. Temperature of the body; normally 98.6 F or 37 C in humans; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health.

Definition of Body temperature

1. Noun. The normal temperature of a healthy, living person or animal. ¹

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Literary usage of Body temperature

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Study of Temperature Fluctuations in Different Parts of the by Edgar P. Slack, Francis Gano Benedict (1911)
"These cavities, however, are not generally used for measuring the body-temperature in either medical practice or physiological experimenting. ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"... which cause a dilatation of the skin vessels also increase the loss of body heat, in some cases to a sufficient extent to lower the body temperature. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"It varied from 1° Fahr. to 4°-6 Fahr.; or, to put it in another and more striking way, we raised the body temperature to 103° and 104° Fahr., a severe fever ..."

4. The Metabolism and Energy Transformations of Healthy Man During Rest by Francis Gano Benedict, Thorne Martin Carpenter (1910)
"variations in body-temperature during pathological conditions, ... The body-temperature is a resultant of thermogenesis, or the development of heat inside ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"He finds that the body temperature of birds is apparently quite independent of external temperature, records of the same species in seasons of marked heat ..."

6. The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism by Francis Gano Benedict (1907)
"body temperature. Since muscular activity has a very pronounced and immediate effect on the body temperature, experiments during fasting when the internal ..."

7. The Physiology of the New-born Infant: Character and Amount of the Katabolism by Francis Gano Benedict, Fritz Bradley Talbot, Karl Albert Hasselbalch (1915)
"The well-known factors influencing body-temperature in the adult, such as muscular activity and exposure to a temperature environment differing greatly from ..."

8. A Study of Metabolism in Severe Diabetes by Francis Gano Benedict, Elliott Proctor Joslin (1912)
"In a research of this kind, measurements of body-temperature have two ... The variations in body-temperature necessitate proper corrections for heat stored ..."

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