The production of heat, esp. in living animal bodies.

The faculty in living beings of developing heat so as to maintain nearly the same temperature at all times.

Physiology. That function of the nervous system on which the normal temperature of the body depends; the regulation of the bodily heat.

Physiology. The dissipation or dispersion of heat from the body.

The maintenance or possession of an almost constant body temperature.

= thermoregulation, n.

Regulation of temperature, esp. body temperature in an animal or human.

= main sense.