Term: poikilothermy
Origin: Anc Greek
ποικίλος/poikilos(=variant)
θερμός/thermos(=warm)
>θέρω/ thero(=heat)
>θάλλω/thallo(=feed)
Literally means "various-heating”
Definition
(biol) Poikilothermy is in general the capasity of an organism to vary the internal body temprature according to temprature of external environment. Ectothermy is also thermoregulation but this is generated only by internal means of metabolism.
The opposite of homoethermy is homeothermy.
