KROK 1 2012 – Question 19 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
The temperature of the ambient environment is 38o C and relative air humidity is 50%. What ways of heat emission provide maintaining a constant temperature of the human body?
- A. Evaporation
- B. Convection and conduction
- C. Heat conduction
- D. Radiation
- E. Convection
Hint
Compare the ambient temperature with the temperature of the skin, and ask which routes of heat loss depend on a temperature gradient and which do not.
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