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Ask Anything 12w
someone studying physiology can you explain why da fawk my body temperature raises 10 degrees when im coughing
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Anonymous 12w

It requires repeated muscle contractions and strains your abdominal cavity, which generates internal heat (or you can think about it this way, when you run your hand on a couch back and forth, the friction makes your hand hot… this is the same as when you cough, the muscles contracting makes you feel hot)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

thank you kind stranger, i am now this much smarter

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