metabolic heat

American  

[met-uh-bol-ik heet] / ˈmɛt əˌbɒl ɪk ˈhit /

noun

Physiology.

1. another term for body heat.

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Example Sentences

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

From National Geographic

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

From BBC

The paper joins a growing genre: As early as 2010, climate scientists Stephen Sherwood of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and Matthew Huber of Purdue University found in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that “a global-mean warming of roughly 7 °C would create small zones where metabolic heat dissipation would for the first time become impossible, calling into question their suitability for human habitation.”

From Washington Post

But it can be “used to establish an absolute limit on metabolic heat transfer that is based on physical laws rather than the extrapolation of empirical approximations,” Sherwood writes.

From Washington Post

Human skin is typically at 35°C. When the wet-bulb temperature of the air exceeds that level, it becomes physically impossible for the body to shed its own metabolic heat and cool itself, especially by evaporating sweat.

From National Geographic