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Definition of Cold-blooded
1. Adjective. Without compunction or human feeling. "Insensate destruction"
2. Adjective. Having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated).
Similar to: Ectothermic, Heterothermic, Poikilothermic, Poikilothermous
Antonyms: Warm-blooded
Definition of Cold-blooded
1. Adjective. Having an unregulated body temperature; ectothermic. ¹
2. Adjective. Lacking emotion or compunction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Cold-blooded
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cold-blooded
Literary usage of Cold-blooded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"FURTHER INVESTIGATION UPON THE INFLUENCE OF ORGAN EXTRACTS OF cold-blooded ANIMALS
ON THE BLOOD PRESSURE.1 BY DON R. JOSEPH, MS, MD (From the Department of ..."
2. The Philosophy of Natural History: With an Introduction and Various by William Smellie, John Ware (1851)
"Hence we call them cold-blooded. Here then is afforded ground for a subdivision
of the ... The cold-blooded vertebral animals also form two classes. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"More usually the temperature is taken in the mouth, axilla or groin. Warm and
Cold Blooded Animals.—By numerous observations upon men and animals ..."
4. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... The Old Chief's Sacrifice — Childhood Sports — Freedom of the Lodge — Trained
for the Chase— Roaming at Large — Cold-Blooded Atrocities — Daring Attacks ..."
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