THE RELATIVE RÔLES OF THE EXTREMITIES IN THE DISSIPATION OF HEAT FROM THE HUMAN BODY UNDER VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURES AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
- 29 February 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content
- Vol. 128 (4) , 782-790
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1940.128.4.782
Abstract
Relative humidity has little effect on the skin temps. of the body, as indicated most sensitively by changes in the temps. of the fingers and toes, when the body is subjected to fixed environmental temps. ranging from approx. 23[degree] to 28[degree] C. (73[degree] to 82[degree] F.) with a range of 35 to 75% relative humidity. The dissipation of heat from the body is therefore dependent chiefly on the environmental temp. and is little influenced by relative humidity, when the person under test is in the basal metabolic state, lightly clothed, and at rest in still air.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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