Endotherm, the Glossary
An endotherm (from Greek ἔνδον endon "within" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat released by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.[1]
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- Polyphyletic groups
- Thermoregulation
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Endotherm and Ancient Greek
Archosauromorpha
Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all reptiles more closely related to archosaurs (such as crocodilians and dinosaurs, including birds) rather than lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, lizards, and snakes).
See Endotherm and Archosauromorpha
Argentine black and white tegu
The Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae), also known as the Argentine giant tegu, the black and white tegu, or the huge tegu, is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae.
See Endotherm and Argentine black and white tegu
BioEssays
BioEssays is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal covering molecular and cellular biology.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Blood vessel
Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.
See Endotherm and Blood vessel
Blubber
Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds, penguins, and sirenians.
Brown adipose tissue
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat makes up the adipose organ together with white adipose tissue (or white fat).
See Endotherm and Brown adipose tissue
Cell (biology)
The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.
See Endotherm and Cell (biology)
Cicada
The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs).
Circadian rhythm
A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.
See Endotherm and Circadian rhythm
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Ear
An ear is the organ that enables hearing and (in mammals) body balance using the vestibular system.
Ectotherm
An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός "outside" and θερμός "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature. Endotherm and ectotherm are thermoregulation.
Emperor penguin
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.
See Endotherm and Emperor penguin
Endothermic process
An endothermic process is a chemical or physical process that absorbs heat from its surroundings.
See Endotherm and Endothermic process
Eutheria
Eutheria (from Greek εὐ-, 'good, right' and θηρίον, 'beast'), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials.
Evaporation
Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.
Exothermic process
In thermodynamics, an exothermic process is a thermodynamic process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark, flame, or flash), electricity (e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning hydrogen).
See Endotherm and Exothermic process
Fat
In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.
Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Fur
Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of almost all mammals.
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid.
See Endotherm and Heat exchanger
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
Honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae.
Hyperthermia
Hyperthermia, also known simply as overheating, is a condition in which an individual's body temperature is elevated beyond normal due to failed thermoregulation. Endotherm and Hyperthermia are thermoregulation.
See Endotherm and Hyperthermia
Hypothermia
Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans. Endotherm and Hypothermia are thermoregulation.
Ichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – and) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.
See Endotherm and Ichthyosauria
Immune system
The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.
See Endotherm and Immune system
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Insect thermoregulation
Insect thermoregulation is the process whereby insects maintain body temperatures within certain boundaries. Endotherm and insect thermoregulation are thermoregulation.
See Endotherm and Insect thermoregulation
Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago).
See Endotherm and Late Triassic
Leatherback sea turtle
The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights of.
See Endotherm and Leatherback sea turtle
Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliamorpha is a clade of cynodonts.
See Endotherm and Mammaliamorpha
Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.
See Endotherm and Middle Jurassic
Mitochondrion
A mitochondrion is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi.
See Endotherm and Mitochondrion
Mosasaur
Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
See Endotherm and Nature (journal)
Nocturnal bottleneck
The nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain several mammalian traits.
See Endotherm and Nocturnal bottleneck
Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
See Endotherm and Nocturnality
Pareiasauria
Pareiasaurs (meaning "cheek lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles.
See Endotherm and Pareiasauria
Pelycosaur
Pelycosaur is an older term for basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, excluding the therapsids and their descendants.
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.
Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Perspiration
Perspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Endotherm and Perspiration are animal physiology.
See Endotherm and Perspiration
Photoreceptor cell
A photoreceptor cell is a specialized type of neuroepithelial cell found in the retina that is capable of visual phototransduction.
See Endotherm and Photoreceptor cell
Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
Plesiosaur
The Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.
Pythonidae
The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Radiant energy
In physics, and in particular as measured by radiometry, radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation.
See Endotherm and Radiant energy
Radiator
A radiator is a heat exchanger used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating.
Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
Rete mirabile
A rete mirabile (Latin for "wonderful net";: retia mirabilia) is a complex of arteries and veins lying very close to each other, found in some vertebrates, mainly warm-blooded ones.
See Endotherm and Rete mirabile
Season
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region.
Seasonal breeder
Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.
See Endotherm and Seasonal breeder
Shivering
Shivering (also called shuddering) is a bodily function in response to cold and extreme fear in warm-blooded animals.
Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
Surface-area-to-volume ratio
The surface-area-to-volume ratio or surface-to-volume ratio (denoted as SA:V, SA/V, or sa/vol) is the ratio between surface area and volume of an object or collection of objects.
See Endotherm and Surface-area-to-volume ratio
Synapsida
Synapsida is one of the two major clades of vertebrate animals in the group Amniota, the other being the Sauropsida (which includes reptiles and birds).
Tegu
Tegu is a common name of a number of species of lizards that belong to the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae.
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
See Endotherm and Temperate climate
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
Tenrec
A tenrec is a mammal belonging to any species within the afrotherian family Tenrecidae, which is endemic to Madagascar.
Thermal insulation
Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
See Endotherm and Thermal insulation
Torpor
Torpor is a state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually marked by a reduced body temperature and metabolic rate. Endotherm and Torpor are animal physiology.
Tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator.
See Endotherm and Tropical rainforest climate
Uncoupler
An uncoupler or uncoupling agent is a molecule that disrupts oxidative phosphorylation in prokaryotes and mitochondria or photophosphorylation in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria by dissociating the reactions of ATP synthesis from the electron transport chain.
Vasoconstriction
Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, in particular the large arteries and small arterioles.
See Endotherm and Vasoconstriction
Wader
A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.
Warm-blooded
Warm-blooded is an informal term referring to animal species whose bodies maintain a temperature higher than that of their environment. Endotherm and Warm-blooded are animal physiology and thermoregulation.
See Endotherm and Warm-blooded
Winter moth
The winter moth (Operophtera brumata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.
See also
Polyphyletic groups
- Algae
- Archaeohyracidae
- Avicephala
- Brain coral
- Coxsackievirus
- Dromasauria
- Drosophila immigrans species group
- Dung beetle
- Endotherm
- Eureptilia
- Euryapsida
- Holospondyli
- Insectivora
- Lepospondyli
- Lichen
- Limpet
- Lipotyphla
- Microlepidoptera
- Monodnaviria
- Ostracoderm
- Phyllospondyli
- Ratite
- Sarcomastigophora
- Seaweed
- Slime mold
- Slug
- Stenopterygii
- Thermoanaerobacterales
- Trachiniformes
- Turrid
- Vulture
- Wastebasket taxon
- Witchetty grub
Thermoregulation
- Basal body temperature
- Bradyaerobic
- Bradymetabolism
- Chills
- Cold-stunning
- Ectotherm
- Endotherm
- Gigantothermy
- Heat illness
- Heat stroke
- Heterothermy
- Homeothermy
- Human body temperature
- Human thermoregulation
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
- Insect thermoregulation
- Kleptothermy
- Mesotherm
- Palm cooling
- Poikilotherm
- Tachyaerobic
- Thermal neutral zone
- Thermoregulation
- Warm-blooded
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endotherm
Also known as Endotherm (biology), Endothermia, Endothermic animal, Endothermism, Endotherms, Endothermy, Facultative endothermy, Seasonal reproductive endothermy.
, Photoreceptor cell, Pinniped, Plesiosaur, Pythonidae, Radiant energy, Radiator, Reptile, Rete mirabile, Season, Seasonal breeder, Shivering, Skin, Sugar, Sunlight, Surface-area-to-volume ratio, Synapsida, Tegu, Temperate climate, Temperature, Tenrec, Thermal insulation, Torpor, Tropical rainforest climate, Uncoupler, Vasoconstriction, Wader, Warm-blooded, Winter moth.