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nbme16/Block 4/Question#9 (reveal difficulty score)
A 25-year-old man develops a temperature of ...
Evaporation of sweat ๐Ÿ” / ๐Ÿ“บ / ๐ŸŒณ / ๐Ÿ“–
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Evaporation causes cooling because the process requires heat energy. The energy is taken away by the molecules when they convert from liquid into gas, and this causes cooling on the original surface

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chaosawaits  Increased minute ventilation would be panting. So unless you're a dog, not C. And central arteriolar vasodilation is more for warming peripheral tissue than for heat loss, though heat is lost, just as much as sweating does. So not A. +1



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