metabolic heat
Americannoun
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"Heat index is very much like the wet bulb thermometer, only it adds the metabolic heat that a human has that a thermometer does not have," Romps said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
By cooling blood that then circulates back to the body, they can dump a lot of their metabolic heat to the environment.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023
In biologic systems, this means a great deal of energy is lost as metabolic heat when the organisms from one trophic level consume the next level.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Until about 2010 the only explanation scientists offered pig farmers for why their animals gained less weight in the summer was that the heat-stressed pigs eat less to reduce their metabolic heat production.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2018
However, the ratio of evaporative heat lost to metabolic heat produced can be used to quantify a species' capacity for evaporative cooling and to make comparisons between species.
From Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae by Kathleen P. Mahlke-Johnson
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