There may be times when your body is not cold, but you begin to shiver. This type of unexpected shivering could be a sign of a bacterial or viral infection that your body is fighting. The heat produced by muscle contraction and relaxation aids in warming your body and fighting the infectio...
noun a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever Etymologies Sorry, no etymologies found. Support Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word shivering. Examples My body, which was shivering from the cold 30 deg...
Shivering and rigor are less likely to occur among elderly people. It may be caused by a number of factors including cold weather, sensitivity to cold, fever, menopause and panic attack. A number of bacterial and viral infections also have to shiver as one of the symptoms. Drug withdrawal m...
Central efferent pathways mediating shivering thermogenesis for cold defense and feverdoi:10.1016/j.neures.2010.07.100KazuhiroNakamuraandShaunFMorrisonSDOSNeuroscience Research
Nonshivering thermogenesis seems to be quite variable in adults but does not appear to be functional or relevant.41Adults seem to have the potential to regenerate brown fat tissue under certain conditions (e.g., high and sustained sympathetic stimulation [pheochromocytoma] or marked cold acclimatizati...
In study 2, 9 men were given cold Ringer's solution IV to reduce core temperature ≈2°C/h. Cooling was stopped when shivering intensity no longer increased with further core cooling. The gain of shivering was the slope of oxygen consumption vs. core temperature regression. In Study 1, ...