a. Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal;
homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a
nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the
surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal)
animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature
of the surrounding medium.
a. [动]恒温的, 同温的, 温血的(亦作homoiothermic)