Definition of "homoiothermic" []

• Of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In physiology, he worked out the mechanism of the thermoregulation in homoiothermic animals."
• "Bergmann suggested that they should be known as "homoiothermic" and"
• "Also, from work recently done by J.O. Wakelin Barratt, it has been shown that under certain pathological conditions a warm-blooded (homoiothermic) animal may become for a time cold-blooded (poikilothermic)."