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sweating

From sweat, Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. Sweating room. A room for sweating persons.

(Science: medicine) A febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterised by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.


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Heart Rate and Breathing Rate

... reach homeostasis. Also, the production of ATP produces heat. In order to maintain homeostasis, your body has mechanisms to get rid of the heat, sweating, vasodilation, etc.

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by supaumar
Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:56 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart Rate and Breathing Rate
Replies: 3
Views: 919

Photosynthesis

because you're shivering when cold, sweating when hot and chillin' when it's 78 degrees.

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by mith
Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:21 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Photosynthesis
Replies: 3
Views: 945

Body systems

I'm not sure... Maybe you can use an example like people who do sports... They will sweating.. U can explain everything from that ex.. Not only 2 systems but it will connect all the systems for sure. That's only a possibility

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by F4T32008
Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:32 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Body systems
Replies: 5
Views: 2155

positive and negative feedback loops

... that the body may begin to over heat. this new stimulant causes the control centre (hypoth.) to instruct the effector(s) to kick in. for example sweating , vaso-dialation, etc... in each case the result of the effectors action becomes the new stimulant and an opposite reaction occurs in a controlled ...

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by biodawgg
Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:52 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Positive & Negative Feedback
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Views: 10935

Re: Tipping point?

... temperature control mechanism of the human body. As with the body, when an increase in body temperature is detected the body responds with a sweating reflex to provide cooling for the body, the Gulf Stream warm water currents are reduced by the melting caps, and in response, the salinity ...

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by MichaelXY
Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:30 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Tipping point?
Replies: 15
Views: 2643
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