KROK 1 2009 – Question 22 · 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. Convection and conduction
- B. Heat conduction
- C. Evaporation
- D. Radiation
- E. Convection
Hint
Compare the ambient temperature with skin temperature and ask which heat-loss routes still work when the surroundings are warmer than the body.
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