Example Sentences

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Would evolutionary biology across the span of 250 million years grant mammals brand-new thermoregulatory adaptations?

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

You develop heat exhaustion when your body’s thermoregulatory system gets overloaded.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2020

Despite our thermoregulatory shortcomings, we’ve managed to survive extreme cold through technology, from insulating clothing to systems that pump hot air and water around our homes.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019

The hypothalamus senses core temperature directly, and also has input from temperature receptors in the skin and modifies the sweat output, along with other thermoregulatory processes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Regression equations of thermoregulatory metabolism for males and females in winter are not different from each other in either slope or intercept.

From Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae by Mahlke-Johnson, Kathleen P.