KROK 1 2017 – Question 20 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A person is in a room with air temperature of 38°C and relative air humidity of 50%. What type of heat transfer ensures maintenance of constant body core temperature under these conditions?
- A. Convection
- B. Conduction and convection
- C. Evaporation
- D. Radiation
- E. -
Hint
Compare the air temperature with the temperature of the skin, and ask which routes of heat loss still work when the surroundings are warmer than the body surface.
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