Home › Words › B › bloodheatbloodheatbloodheat means the temperature of the body of a living mammal.EtymologyFrom blood + heat.nounThe temperature of the body of a living mammal.e.g.“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 5:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.hematherm 60% match — Any warm-blooded animal. vs bloodheat →biothermal 57% match — Of or pertaining to heat generated by biological processes. vs bloodheat →thermotaxic 57% match — Relating to the regulation of temperature in the animal body vs bloodheat →mesotherm 57% match — An animal that adjusts its body to a metabolically favourable temperature using a context-dependent balance of internal metabolically-produced heat and external-environmentally derived heat. vs bloodheat →endotherm 57% match — An animal that maintains a constant body temperature. vs bloodheat →homeotherm 56% match — Any warm-blooded animal: one that maintains a stable internal body temperature regardless of external influence. vs bloodheat →hyperthermic 55% match — Having a very high temperature vs bloodheat →homoiothermal 54% match — warm-blooded. vs bloodheat →