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Body Temperature
Body temperature is one of the vital signs of human beings. Temperature is recorded to check for fever (pyrexia or febrile condition), or to monitor the degree of hypothermia. Normal human body temperature is 37 degrees Centigrade or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Well, he was certainly quite hot-headed. Adolf Hitler was also very popular among the German people, but then again, many leaders were.
How much shade does it take to change the temperature?
There is no straight forward answer for this, Newton described this in his Law of Cooling. The rate of cooling (change in temperature) is proportional to the difference in temperature. Here is an example, let's say you shade a area on the ground, when you remove the shade and expose it to the sun, the rate of cooling will be rapid at first because the difference between the shaded area and the sun's radiative temperature are greatest. Then the temperature will begin to level off as the two temperatures begin to reach an equilibrium.
How does being cold lower your immune system?
No. There is a long-held old belief that being cold can cause infectious illnesses like the cold and flu and/or can "lower your immune system". This belief began before people knew what caused the colds and flu. Once germs were identified as the cause, any of the prior thoughts on what caused colds, flu, and pneumonia did not immediately go away, and many people still cling to those beliefs, even today.
Science has disproved this with double blind studies and we now know that these illnesses are not caused by cold weather or by being cold. That is coincidental since the cold and flu season is in fall and winter in the Northern Hemisphere and people made that connection when there really was no association. See the related question below about why the flu has a season if it has nothing to do with the temperature (hint: it is the humidity).
There are some studies that have indicated that the immune system response and activity can be negatively impacted by hypothermia. This may be true, however, it is often misunderstood what hypothermia is in medical terminology. That means that the core body temperature has gone well below the normal and your body systems and organs will begin to fail when that happens, including the immune system. The core temperature must be reduced significantly for this to happen, however, which is not easily done. Our bodies are extremely efficient in keeping our core body temperatures stable as that is a requirement for proper physiology of the human body.
Hypothermia is not just being cold or in the cold. It takes long term exposure to extreme low temperatures or immersion in cold water to take the core body temperature down to a hypothermic state. This would usually only occur well after extreme exposure situations with peripheral body parts frostbitten and damaged. We are not talking about just going out without a coat on or being chilled.
So, the answer to the question is no. See the related questions below for more details.
What do you think would happen to an organism if its internal temperature became too high?
If an organism's internal temperature becomes too high, it can denature its proteins, disrupting cellular functions and potentially leading to cell death. This can cause damage to tissues and organs, impacting overall health and potentially leading to death if the temperature is not brought back to normal.
Most likely your thermostat has gone bad. Cheap and easy repair. If its white smoke coming out the pipe it may be a head gasket,,the smoke is acutally steam vaporating out the chamber thru the tailpipe...if it starts a second then stops you may have just gotten away from a going bad engine and itsw the thermostat..have it checked..
Could you be hurt by sticking your tongue to a frozen pole?
Besides being very cold, there is a risk of your tongue freezing to the pole.
Why do you measure temperature before and after a reaction?
To determine whether the reaction was exothermic (gave off heat) or endothermic (absorbed heat).
Does a person with AIDS have a fever?
Like most diseases, HIV presents itself differently in every person. Some people may have persistent symptoms, while some will experience very few symptoms. One of the most common symptoms of HIV is a fever. Having a fever means that your body temperature is elevated.
What is the process for regulating body temperature?
Body temperature regulation is controlled by the automomic nervous system under the guidance of the medulla oblongatta in the brain stem.
What happens when your body temperature reaches 109?
You die. From what I've read, you die once it hits around 107.
Appropriate body temperature
Ideal place to record temperature in a dead body?
Rectum is the ideal place to record body temperature except in cases of sodomy. Other suitable sites are external auditory canal, nasal passages or by inserting a thermometer into the peritoneal cavity by a small opening and keeping it in contact with the inferior surface of the liver
A chemical reaction will occur not only at one temperature; however, the turnover is higher in a warmer ambient. To provide an example, plants are growing much faster the warmer it gets during spring.
In the human body the temperature is at 37°C, but lower in the extremities, at the skin. Even more extremes can be observed in extraordinary situations like heat (fever, sauna) or when freezing (hypothermia). Under each of these situations the body must function and likewise the reactions need to work.
A typical biological, enzymatic reaction (glycolysis or citrate cycle) can take place from below 0°C (salts keep the water melted) to 45°C or much higher (thermophil bacteria: higher than 100°C, high water preasure keeps the boiling temperature even higher).
Why is the average human body temperature 37 degrees while Earth's average climate varies by region?
The reason for maintaining a body temperature is that certain necessary chemical processes that happen within the human body happen most effectively at that temperature. temperature is one of the factors that make up the environment within our bodies that allow them to work properly, and also include blood pH (acidity level) and salinity (amount of salt). Together, these factors being maintained at proper levels is called Homeostasis (lit. kept the same). Thus the average human body temperature remains constant regardless of region.
yes, i would go see a doc soon.
Does homeostasis affect body temperature?
The stabilization of body temperature is homeostasis. What affects homeostasis is the interaction of the hypothalamus and hormones, such as prostaglandin; an indirect marker for inflammation.
Homeostasis is constant/stable. The hypothalamus ensures body temperature homeostasis.
