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Heterothermy or heterothermia (from Greek ἕτερος heteros "other" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is a physiological term for animals that vary between self-regulating their body temperature, and allowing the surrounding environment to affect it.
He was the first fan in Major League Baseball history to die of injuries caused by a foul ball. [326] Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev: 29 June 1971: The Soviet cosmonauts died when their Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurized during preparations for re-entry. They are the only reported human deaths outside the Earth's ...
Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms. Some organisms, such as Turritopsis dohrnii, are biologically immortal; however, they can still die from means other than aging. [4] Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the equivalent for individual components of an organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. [5]
Most deaths were not work related (63%) and 23% of affected people were at home. [32] Hypothermia was most common during the autumn and winter months of October through March. [32] In the United Kingdom, an estimated 300 deaths per year are due to hypothermia, whereas the annual incidence of hypothermia-related deaths in Canada is 8,000. [32]
Heat stroke results in more than 600 deaths a year in the United States. [4] Rates increased between 1995 and 2015. [ 3 ] Purely exercise-induced heat stroke, though a medical emergency, tends to be self-limiting (the patient stops exercising from cramp or exhaustion) and fewer than 5% of cases are fatal.
A number of "remarkable" legends concerning the death of another of the three great Athenian tragedians are recorded in the late antique Life of Sophocles. According to one legend, he choked to death on an unripe grape. [21] Another says that he died of joy after hearing that his last play had been successful.
Heat death of the universe, a proposed cosmological event Heat death paradox, a philosophical examination of the cosmological event; Hyperthermia, injury up to and including death, from excessive heat; Thermal shock, the destruction of equipment by overheating; A Supernova, heat death of a star, along with the death of the star itself
Health policy and health systems can have impacts on deaths and thereby may also be a factor of deaths, also including for example education policy (e.g. health illiteracy), climate policy (e.g. future water scarcity impacts) and transportation policy (e.g. motor vehicle accidents, pollution and physical activity), [citation needed] as well as ...