5. Answer the questions.

1. What are the characteristics of the mechanism of fever?

2. In what way is limitation of heat emission realized?

3. What does the decrease in skin temperature result in?

4. What is the spinal oscillator responsible for?

5. Why are contractile and non-contractile thermogeneses increased?

6. How long does the first stage of fever last?

7. What does stadium fastigii, or acme, signify?

1. What is the heat production and heat emission relationship like at stadium fastigii?

8. What does stadium decrementi result from?

10. What is the relationship between heat production and heat emission at stadium decrementi?

11. What can complicate abrupt enlargement of blood vessels in the case of critical temperature fall?

12. What is the effect of repeated injections of exogenous pyrogens and of endogenous pyrogens?

11. What is the difference between hyperthermia and fever?