資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Homoiothermal \Ho*moi`o*ther"mal\, a. [Gr. ? like + E. thermal.]
   (Physiol.)
   Maintaining a uniform temperature; h[ae]matothermal;
   homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they
   maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great
   variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the
   cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature
   follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding
   medium.