As distinct from hyperthermia, fever is:
1. a nonregulated rise in temperature related to an imbalance between heat gain and heat loss.
2. when the temperature set-point is not elevated.
3. a regulated increase in body temperature that is mediated by a rise in temperature set-point.
4. impaired heat loss.
ANS: 3
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