Adjustments in heat production are made primarily by:
a. the lungs
b. brown fat
c. skeletal muscles
d. the thalamus
e. the thyroid
c
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a) Somatic nervous system b) Autonomic nervous system c) Enteric nervous system d) All of these choices
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The average individual has 500 ml of residual volume in his lungs 2. Atelectasis (lung collapse) renders the lung useless for ventilation. 3. The Hering-Breuer reflex is a potentially dangerous response that may cause overinflation of the lung. 4. Strong emotions and pain acting through the limbic system activate sympathetic centers in the hypothalamus, thus modulating respiratory rate and depth by sending signals to the respiratory centers. 5. As carbon dioxide enters systemic blood, it causes more oxygen to dissociate from hemoglobin (the Haldane effect), which in turn allows more CO2 to combine with hemoglobin and more bicarbonate ion to be generated (the Bohr effect).
What is the veterinary term for a seizure?
What will be an ideal response?
When shoveling snow from the driveway, the older man did not feel the bitter cold. Which action made his blood vessels get smaller in diameter, conserving heat in the warm core of his body?
A. Vasomotor B. Vasodilation C. Vasoconstriction D. Vasopressor