poikilothermia

In medicine, loss of normal thermoregulation in humans is referred to as "poikilothermia".

Clinical manifestations of acute limb ischemia (which can be summarized as the "six P's") include pain, pallor, pulseless, paresthesia, paralysis, and poikilothermia.

Key words: thermoregulation, NMDA receptor, MK801, poikilothermia, rat.

Throughout their care, brain dead patients could experience a wide range of complications, including "infection, hemodynamic instability, diabetes insipidus (DI), panhypopituitarism, poikilothermia, metabolic instability, acute respiratory distress syndrome and disseminated intravascular coagulation."