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body tem·per·a·ture

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. body temperature, blood heatnoun

    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

Wiktionary

  1. body temperaturenoun

    The normal temperature of a healthy, living person or animal.

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  1. body temperature

    Body temperature is a measure of the internal heat of the body, expressed in degrees, which represents the balance between the amount of heat produced by the body and the amount of heat lost to the environment. It is typically regulated within a narrow range for optimal bodily function, with normal values at around 37 degrees Celsius or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in humans. Any significant deviation from this could indicate a health issue.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Body Temperature

    The measure of the level of heat of a human or animal.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of body temperature in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of body temperature in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of body temperature in a Sentence

  1. Guo Qiang:

    I have to say I'm indeed worried, sometimes I'm nervous even if I have a little cough. That's why I have a thermometer at home and, sometimes when I come back, I'll check my body temperature.

  2. John Castellani:

    It takes a lot to drop the core body temperature down, but it doesnt take as much to drive the peripheral temperatures down.

  3. Lovro Oreškovi?:

    On the cruise liner they thought she didn't survive, she is clearly fit. She told us she does yoga, and that as she floated in the sea she sang the whole time so that her body temperature wouldn't fall, and to stay awake.

  4. Rohan Schoeman:

    APPLE WATCH CATCHES GRANDMOTHERS HEART CONDITION, POSSIBLY SAVING HER LIFE The couple went missing in a snowstorm after spending a weekend with friends on November 3. Rescuers located Marsh in time after her husband sent friends photographs of their location. She was flown by air ambulance to the ValldHebron Hospital in Barcelona, where she was connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine. The machine stands in for the heart and lungs, pumping blood through the arteries and heating it, which raises the body temperature.Doctors believed she could survive if they treated the hypothermia. This is an exceptional case on a global scale, Eduard Argudo, a doctor from the Vall dHebron hospital told a press conference.There are practically no cases of people being revived after their heart has stopped for so long. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUT LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER When she arrived at the hospital, Mashsheart was showing no electrical activity and her kidneys and lungs were not functioning, doctors said. Eduard Argudo said the sharp fall in her body temperature may have saved her as the cold preserved her organs. Six hours after entering cardio-respiratory arrest, Marshs heart began to beat naturally again. Marsh, who spent 11 days in hospital recovering, has not suffered any long-term brain damage but has trouble moving her hands which were affected by the cold. When I went home I had damage to my hands. I could not do up my buttons on trousers or put in my earrings. These are small things which are going to get better, she said. Rohan Schoeman, Rohan Schoeman, 36, who is South African and works as a teacher, said the couple had spent the weekend with friends but left early morning without them. At one point the snowfall became very heavy. We found a rock and tried to use it for shelter to avoid adverse weather conditions. Once visibility improved, I could see that our friends had tried to contact us, audrey was losing consciousness so I tried to send some photos to our friends of where we were.

  5. Margarita Rohr:

    This directs blood flow toward these organs and away from less vital organs like hands and feet, Margarita Rohr said, which leaves these body parts chronically cold. Science bears this out : a University of Utah study found that though women had a slightly higher core body temperature than men, their hands came in at an average of 2.8 degrees cooler. You have diabetes Diabetes that's not kept in check can lead to a condition called peripheral nephropathy, a constant attack on the nerves that provide sensation to your hands and feet, Margarita Rohr said. When this develops, you experience numbness and sometimes pain in the hands and feet, and since these nerves are also responsible for sending message to the brain regarding temperature sensation, your hands and feet may feel cold.


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