Organism Attribute
body temperature
bod·y tem·per·a·ture
Subclass of:
Physiological Phenomena; Vital signs
Definitions related to body temperature:
  • A measurement of the temperature of the body.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Degree of heat in the body of a living organism, temperature is measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter, expressed in terms of units or degrees designated on a standard scale.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The measure of the level of heat of a human or animal.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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