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A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.

Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

Cautery by the application of heat. Paquelin's thermocautery, thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzine vapor.

various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

Pert. to or designating heat rays that have undergone selective absorption and are therefore analogous to colored light rays.

The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.

A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat. Thermodynamic function. See Heat weight, under Heat.

The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.

Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.

Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.

Producing heat; thermogenic.

Any process of writing involving the use of heat.

A discourse on, or an account of, heat. Whewell.

Luminescence exhibited by a substance on being moderately heated. It is shown esp. by certain substances that have been exposed to the action of light or to the cathode rays. ---lu`mi*nes"cent (#), a.

The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.

To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate by heat.

Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism.