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Same as Hematotherma.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

A brother by one parent, but not by both.

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

Warm-blooded.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

See Homoiothermal.

Maintaining a uniform temperature; hæmatothermal; 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 tempe…

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

See Hydropathy.

used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

A line or curved surface passing beneath the earth's surface through points having the same mean temperature.

Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.

Having the nature of an isothere; indicating the distribution of temperature by means of an isothere; as, an isotheral chart or line.

A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean summer temperature.

be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.

Relating to equality of temperature.

A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.