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Webster 1913 Edition

Hematotherma

‖

Hemˊa-to-ther′ma

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr.

αἷμα

,

αἵματος

, blood +

τηερμόσ

warm.]

(Zool.)

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; – the antithesis to

hematocrya

.