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- noun medicine The inability to regulate one's body
temperature .
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Like a cold-blooded animal, your body loses control of its own temperature, a medical condition known as poikilothermia.
billingsgazette.com 2010
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Like a cold-blooded animal, your body loses control of its own temperature, a medical condition known as poikilothermia.
billingsgazette.com 2010
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