basal body temperature


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Noun1.basal body temperature - body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anythingbasal body temperature - body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything
blood heat, body temperature - temperature of the body; normally 98.6 F or 37 C in humans; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
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Similarly, the basal body temperature also was not changed significantly in the above-mentioned phases.
The "brain" behind Natural Cycles is a smart algorithm that can accurately determine a woman's daily fertility by analyzing changes in basal body temperature, which increases after ovulation.
Other methods like the TwoDay Method or the Basal Body Temperature Method can also be used either independently or together quite successfully.
By taking your temperature every day and plugging it into the app, along with the dates of your last periods, it assesses for the subtle rise in basal body temperature of around 0.3C that happens at the time of ovulation.
Wink is designed to help women easily and seamlessly record their basal body temperature (BBT) readings, a key fertility indicator.
One of the most common methods is through Temperature Charting or Basal Body Temperature Charting.
One of the most common discussion topics was basal body temperature (BBT) and its relationship to thyroid disease.
They're descendants of websites that allow users to input and make predictions based on cycle-related information and, even further back, of stand-alone thermo-sensitive devices like Pearly or LadyComp that measure and record a woman's basal body temperature on a daily basis to determine her fertile and infertile days.
This means the couple is monitoring the woman's cycle with basal body temperature or other predictors such as evaluating the cervical mucus with the "clear plan" fertility monitor.