metabolic heat

[met-uh-bol-ik heet]

noun

Physiology.

1. another term for body heat.

Example Sentences

"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.

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By cooling blood that then circulates back to the body, they can dump a lot of their metabolic heat to the environment.

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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.

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You’re not generating a significant amount of metabolic heat, and the remedy for that is just to turn the cooling system off completely.

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This temperature difference allows us to dissipate our own metabolic heat by sweating.

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