Poikilothermy is a related term of thermoconformer.
As nouns the difference between thermoconformer and poikilothermy
is that thermoconformer is any organism whose body temperature changes according to the external temperature, rather than carrying out thermoregulation while poikilothermy is the quality of having a body temperature that varies or fluctuates, depending on the temperature of the environment; cold-bloodedness.
thermoconformer
English
Noun
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en noun)
Any organism whose body temperature changes according to the external temperature, rather than carrying out thermoregulation. poikilothermy
Noun
(-)
(biology) The quality of having a body temperature that varies or fluctuates, depending on the temperature of the environment; cold-bloodedness.
Synonyms
* cold-bloodedness
* poikilothermism
Hypernyms
* bloodedness
Coordinate terms
* homeothermy
* homoiothermy
* warm-bloodedness
Related terms
* ectotherm
* ectothermic
* ectothermy
* endotherm
* endothermic
* endothermy
* heterotherm
* heterothermia
* heterothermic
* heterothermy
* homeotherm
* homoiotherm
* homoiothermous
* homotherm
* poikilotherm
* poikilothermal
* poikilothermic
* poikilothermous
* thermal homeostasis
* thermoconformer
* thermoregulation
See also
* bradymetabolism
* daily torpor
* Djungarian hamster (also Siberian hamster, Russian winter white dwarf hamster), Phodopus sungorus
* metabolism
* naked mole rat (also sand puppy or desert mole rat), Heterocephalus glaber
* tachymetabolism
* warm-blooded