metabolic heat

[ met-uh-bol-ik heet ]

noun

, Physiology.

1. another term for body heat.

Example Sentences

"Heat index is very much like the wet bulb thermometer, only it adds the metabolic heat that a human has that a thermometer does not have," Romps said.

From Science Daily

By cooling blood that then circulates back to the body, they can dump a lot of their metabolic heat to the environment.

From Slate

Until about 2010 the only explanation scientists offered pig farmers for why their animals gained less weight in the summer was that the heat-stressed pigs eat less to reduce their metabolic heat production.

From Scientific American

You’re not generating a significant amount of metabolic heat, and the remedy for that is just to turn the cooling system off completely.

From National Geographic

This temperature difference allows us to dissipate our own metabolic heat by sweating.

From BBC