Meanings
nounanimal heat (uncountable)
- historicaluncountablesciencesThe heat generated in the body of a living animal.First known use 17th c.
[T]he work on animal heat, also strongly influenced by Priestley, led to the oxidation-respiration papers by Lavoisier and his collaborators, Laplace and Seguin.
2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 130
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