NOUN
- an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature
How To Use homeotherm In A Sentence
- The homeothermic capacity of chicks varied as a function of brood size, age, and air temperature.
- Man is a homeotherm, meaning that body temperature is kept within narrow limits by complex control mechanisms.
- The advantages of endothermic homeothermy are seen in the wide range of habitats occupied by mammals, wider than for any other group of animals of similar diversity.
- Being homeothermic, and living on a planet whose slight axial tilt makes for less temperature variation than on Earth, Jovians rarely had any practical need to dress. Three Worlds to Conquer
- Indeed, humans are among the slowest-aging homeotherms.
- Reptiles are poikilothermic, which means that they can not regulate heat internally (as opposed to birds and mammals which are homeothermic). Reptile
- General anesthesia inactivates the body's temperature-regulating mechanism and transforms the homeothermic body into a poikilothermic body - one that is altered by the temperature of the environment.
- Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
- Reproductive effort may increase with high food abundance, especially for homeothermic endotherms, due to increased reproductive allocations and relatively stable metabolizable energy intake.
- In part because of their high metabolic rates (associated with homeothermy and endothermy), mammals often play an ecological role that seems disproportionately large compared to their numerical abundance.