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- uncountablelargely obsoleteThe temperature of the body of a living mammal.
From this, you may judge of the enervating effect of this climate, being 5 deg. above bloodheat, and if it were always so, it would be indeed unbearable […]
1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 137, page 51 more example
Warmth, if less than bloodheat would cool the body quickly, by dilating the superficial capillaries, and allowing rapid conduction, while, at the same time, there is further heat abstraction in the consequent increase of more than one secretion.
1870, British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, volume 46, page 147
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