BLOOD HEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood heat mean? 

• BLOOD HEAT (noun)
  The noun BLOOD HEAT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BLOOD HEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD HEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blood heat; body temperature

Hypernyms ("blood heat" is a kind of...):

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))

vital sign (sign of life; usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood heat"):

basal body temperature; basal temperature (body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything)