In intensive care clinical practice, the continuous monitoring of core temperature in patients with brain injury is currently highly recommended. After major brain injury, brain temperature is often higher than and can vary independently of systemic temperature.
To assimilate is defined as to become like others, or help another person to adapt to a new environment. An example of someone who may attempt to assimilate a country's customs is an immigrant. The definition of assimilate is to learn and comprehend. An example of something one might assimilate is the dialect of a different region after spending much time there. In physiology, to assimilate is for the body to absorb food. An example of something body might assimilate is milk.
assimilation (plural assimilations) 1  The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. 2  The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. ( 3 by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.