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Blood heat   /bləd hit/   Listen
Blood heat

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: body temperature.





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"Blood heat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Micrococcus intracellularis. This germ does not appear to occur normally in any of the lower animals, nor has it been found in the outer world, and is therefore to be regarded as distinctly a human parasite. It is very fortunately a germ of low vitality, as it develops only at about blood heat, and when expelled from its normal dwelling-place in the human body it dies ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris


Words linked to "Blood heat" :   body temperature, basal temperature, vital sign, temperature, basal body temperature


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