blood heat
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Definition
Noun: * The normal internal temperature of a living human body, typically around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius. It is a standard baseline for assessing health.
Usage
- The term "blood heat" is used to refer specifically to the standard, healthy human body temperature. It is often used in medical or physiological contexts.
- It can be used to describe the temperature of an object that feels as warm as a human body.
Examples
- The bathwater was warmed precisely to blood heat.
- A significant deviation from blood heat can indicate fever or hypothermia.
- The incubator maintains the eggs at a constant blood heat.
Advanced Usage
- The phrase can be used metaphorically to describe something that has the warmth or vitality associated with a living body.
- The artist's goal was to give the cold marble sculpture a sense of blood heat.
Variants and Related Words
- Body temperature: A more common and general synonym.
- Normal temperature: A phrase often used interchangeably in everyday health contexts.
- Febrile (adj): Relating to or marked by fever (an elevated body temperature).
- Afebrile (adj): Relating to or marked by the absence of fever.
Synonyms
- Normal body temperature
- 98.6°F / 37°C
Idioms
- (As) warm as blood heat: Describing something that is at or feels like the temperature of the human body.
- She handed me a mug of tea, warm as blood heat.
Noun
- 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