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
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
Mammals are endothermic, and hair provides insulation by trapping a layer of air close to the body to retain metabolic heat.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Ec, defined as the ratio of evaporative heat lost to metabolic heat produced, can be used to quantify thermoregulatory effectiveness of evaporative cooling and to make comparisons of heat tolerance between species.
From Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae by Mahlke-Johnson, Kathleen P.
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