Sentences with phrase «loss of body heat»

Puppies can suffer from hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) or loss of body heat (hypothermia) during surgery and recovery, so speed is of the essence in the procedure.

It can also affect smaller breeds disproportionately because they experience a faster loss of body heat through their skin.

It should be raised above ground level and - have high walls of suitable material and sound construction to protect from draughts and with suitable depth and bedding for the dog to be able to burrow in and keep warm or, - be fully enclosed and be made of a material that offers some insulation against loss of body heat.

Just like your warm winter coat, a double coat comes with a fleecy interior layer of insulation meant to prevent loss of body heat.

Just as you will be chilled wearing a light jacket in wintry weather, single - coated dogs need protection against loss of body heat when temperatures plummet.

Double coats are like our winter coats with an interior insulation layer to prevent loss of body heat and an outer layer to block wind and rain.

It is also crucial in controlling your temperature, having the role of an insulator against loss of body heat and the flow of warm or cool blood from and to the skin surface which can be drastically hotter or colder in comparison to your internal body temperature.

So high social status in this group of snow monkeys has a trade - off between the costs of high rank position and the benefits from a hot spring, which is advantageous for conserving energy by reducing loss of body heat, and lowering stress levels.

Not exact matches

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

The coat radiates more heat to the cold sky than it absorbs from its surroundings, the team reports, causing the temperature to drop below that of the surrounding air, while thick insulation reduces body heat loss from the skin.

Based on its size, a toucan's bill can theoretically account for anywhere from 5 % to 100 % of the bird's body heat loss, the team reports tomorrow in Science.

In terms of consumer applications, high - purity graphene could also be a great option to build efficient thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electric current (and vice versa) with little energy loss — for instance, creating lightweight circuitry woven into clothes that turns body heat into charge for our smartphones.

Second, the high surface - to - volume ratios of such bodies promote heat loss, so they cool quickly between successive impacts.

Again because coconut water is full of electrolytes, it can also be used to rehydrate your body in case of dehydration and fluid loss due to excessive sweating in the heat.

It's usually not metabolism that increases but some for of increased energy expenditure / heat production, unconscious movement, thermogenesis, metabolically active tissue etc... metabolism is more closely linked to size and body surface area, usually decreasing with weight loss and hence body size...

Studies indicate that fluid losses of just 2 % of our body weight will impact heat regulation.

Weight loss: because of the sweat - inducing heat, the body burns calories even while at rest.

Heat therapy benefits the body in numerous ways and one of the biggest benefits is weight loss.

So high heat and humidity cause a large loss of fluid as the body fights to cool itself in turn decreasing performance.

The idea behind involving more and more of protein based food in your diet is to burn more calories as the metabolic process requires more energy in breaking down food involving protein and the more the metabolic process works, the more is the consumption of energy resulting in more fat loss due to the heat generated during the processing of food in the body.

The largest deposits of fat are found mostly beneath the skin, as well as around our organs, which provides insulation from heat loss and protects our bodies from trauma.

Cold water will cause constriction of the arteries and veins near the surface of the body, which will inhibit heat loss and slow the cooling process.

Dogs dissipate body heat by panting, not sweating, and rapid panting causes increased loss of water and carbon dioxide.

This gland has a number of functions, but the important ones can be revealed and one sees what can happen when it does not work properly: loss of haircoat (alopecia), weight gain and edema, poor heat - stress tolerance, increased dandruff, itching to the point of self - mutilation, smelly crud build - up in the ear canals, rancid body odor (especially in mature dogs), decreased fertility, lethargy, poor digestion and stool condition, possible fever, darkened skin, lowered resistance to flea infestation, or any combination of these.

And the air is already heating up: airlines claim the tax is a body - blow, too close on the heels of losses related to the volcanic ash.

The calculations estimate the reduction in the energy flux density with distance away from the sun (Gauss» theorem) and the black body radiation describing the rate of planetary heat loss.

You don't specify temperatures, the physical properties of the body involved, or whether the heating and subsequent loss of heat is continuous or intermittent.

Until or unless the planetary body is at the same temperature as deep space there will always be energy input at the bottom of the atmospheric column (and a temperature gradient) and there will always be heat loss by radiation (or some other means like boiling off of the atmosphere) at the top of the column.

When you wrap yourself in a blanket, the loss of heat is reduced, some is retained at the surface of your body, and you warm up.

Greenhouse gases slow down the rate of heat - loss from the surface of the Earth, like a blanket that slows down the rate at which your body loses heat.

No it doesn't, because immediately the cold blanket will take heat from you, it can slow your heat loss and act to delay conduction of your body's heat to the cold air around you, which is why you feel cold in the first place, and depending on how cold the air and how effective the blanket, you will hopefully regain your body's working temperature, and if very efficient, could make you overheat.

The twin consequences of this are a) the hotter body cools more slowly; and b) if the hotter body was at a dynamical equilibrium temperature that was maintained relative to the colder body by some constant input of heat, interpolating the absorber layer will force its temperature higher so that it can maintain the same rate of energy loss and remain in dynamical equilibrium.

Heat flows spontaneously from hotter body to colder, but I've also seen this explained as: if we grab a colder object, say snowball, it's not the cold of the object we're feeling, but the heat loss in our hHeat flows spontaneously from hotter body to colder, but I've also seen this explained as: if we grab a colder object, say snowball, it's not the cold of the object we're feeling, but the heat loss in our hheat loss in our hand.