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Cold-blooded

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

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Poikilothermic 84% connected

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

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Poikilothermic 84% connected

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

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Poikilothermous 84% connected

Poikilothermal.

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Poikilothermous 84% connected

Poikilothermal.

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Cold 92% connected

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

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Inhuman 92% connected

Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

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Insensate 92% connected

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

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Warm-blooded 94% connected

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a…

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Warm-blooded 94% connected

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a…

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Affinity noun · 78% connection

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…

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Agglutination test noun · 78% connection

a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglu…

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Angelfish noun · 78% connection

deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters

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Antiphospholipid antibody noun · 78% connection

any of the group of common autoantibodies present in blood.; "The presence an antiphospholipid antibody in blood, such as the lupus an…

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Bleed verb · 78% connection

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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Blood noun · 78% connection

the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood ca…

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Blood pressure noun · 78% connection

the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…

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Bur fish unknown · 78% connection

A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distendin…

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Chilly adjective · 78% connection

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

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Clopidogrel bisulfate noun · 78% connection

a blood thinner (trade name Plavix) approved for the treatment of mild heart attacks; works by preventing blood platelets from stickin…

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Cool noun · 78% connection

A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of t…

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Diapedesis noun · 78% connection

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…

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El Nino southern oscillation noun · 78% connection

a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and…

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Fish noun · 78% connection

the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people start…

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Flying fish unknown · 78% connection

A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishe…

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Freeze verb · 78% connection

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

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Fresh-water adjective · 78% connection

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

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Globulin noun · 78% connection

An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with…

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