Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curve exhibiting the variations of temperature during a given period.
- noun A curve showing the variations of body temperature at definite intervals in the course of a fever.
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Some years ago, Prof. J.B. Haycraft argued, on the basis of data furnished by Scotland, that the conception-rate corresponds to the temperature-curve (Haycraft, "Physiological Results of
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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