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Theriodontia
- - An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha.
Thermalgesia
- noun - pain caused by heat
Thermifugine
- - An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name.
Thermochroic
- - Pertaining to or designating heat rays that have undergone selective absorption and are therefore analogous to colored light rays.
Thermochrosy
- - The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
Thermocouple
- noun - a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference
Thermogenous
- - Producing heat; thermogenic.
Thermographs
- noun - a thermometer that records temperature variations on a graph as a function of time
- medical instrument that uses an infrared camera to reveal temperature variations on the surface of the body
Thermography
- noun - diagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors
Thermolabile
- adjective - (chemistry, physics, biology) readily changed or destroyed by heat