Definitions
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- adjective Describing an environment in or out of which
heat is not transferred
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Examples
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Low back pain, knee pain, and shoulder pain were significantly more common in cold storage workers than in a thermoneutral environment and were dependent on the duration of the work in the cold environment.
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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For a naked human at rest, the thermoneutral air temperature is 27 ºC.
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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In temperatures above the thermoneutral zone, heat loss is increased by sweating, and in lower temperatures, heat production is increased by muscular work (up to about 1200 W) or by shivering (up to about 500 W).
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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In animal experiments, increased brain norepinephrine narrows the thermoneutral zone.
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In some women the thermoneutral zone is exceptionally narrow, and small fluctuations in core body temperature will give them hot flashes.
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Freedman's theory is that women who get hot flashes have a very narrow "thermoneutral zone" -- the temperature at which the body is neither sweating nor shivering.
Hot Flashes 2007
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Normally, core temperature stays in a thermoneutral zone, above which we sweat and below which we shiver.
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Freedman's theory is that women who get hot flashes have a very narrow "thermoneutral zone" — the temperature at which the body is neither sweating nor shivering.
Hot Flashes 2007
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This process is also thermoneutral it involves essentially no energy change, so there is no entropy change because of exchange of energy between the system and surrounding.
Nancy Pearcey: The Creationists' Miss Information - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The body starts to heat itself if it drops below the "thermoneutral zone" which is around
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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