skin temperature
Dermal heat reading
Skin temperature is the warmth of the body's surface, as distinct from core body temperature measured internally.
Medical professionals check skin temperature to assess circulation, fever, or shock: Her skin temperature felt normal to the touch.
The term appears in physiology, thermal comfort research, and wearable technology that monitors body heat.
- feverElevated body temperature
- fever dreamHallucinatory episode during illness
- warmthHeat you feel
- coldLow temperature state
- ice coldExtremely chilled, near freezing
clammy · flush · sweat · cold sweat · chill · goosebumps · thermometer · thermal imaging · hypothermia · flushed · hot flash · heat stroke · touch · forehead · body heat · perspiration · shiver · radiant
- thermoregulationshivering, sweating, thermoregulation, thermal regulation, panting
- temperature sensingheat sensing, hot sensation, cold sensation
- feverfever, high fever, febrile, low-grade fever, feverish
- body signalsheartbeat, pulse, brainwaves, brain waves, brainwave
- Vascular Testsangiogram, angiography, arteriography, venogram, doppler
skin temperatureambient temperature
Heat of surroundings
room temperature · air temperature · water temperature · surface temperature
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