basal body temperature

1. 1.

   body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything

   Synonymsbasal temperature

   Broaderbody temperature

Questions about basal body temperature

What does basal body temperature mean?

basal body temperature means "body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything".

What is another word for basal body temperature?

Close synonyms include basal temperature. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basal body temperature a common word?

basal body temperature is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.