Table of Contents
27 relations: Adenosine triphosphate, Brown adipose tissue, Chattering teeth, Chills, Electrochemical gradient, Energy, Fear, Fever, Frisson, Glycerol, Goose bumps, Homeostasis, Hypothalamus, Mitochondrion, Myoclonus, Norepinephrine, Post-micturition convulsion syndrome, Postanesthetic shivering, Reflex, Skin, Spinal cord, Surface-area-to-volume ratio, Thermoregulation, Third ventricle, Tremor, Triglyceride, Warm-blooded.
Adenosine triphosphate
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis.
See Shivering and Adenosine triphosphate
Brown adipose tissue
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat makes up the adipose organ together with white adipose tissue (or white fat).
See Shivering and Brown adipose tissue
Chattering teeth
Chattering teeth is a bodily function in animals that occurs primarily in response to cold; the jaw muscles begin to shiver leading teeth to crash together.
See Shivering and Chattering teeth
Chills
Chills is a feeling of coldness occurring during a high fever, but sometimes is also a common symptom which occurs alone in specific people.
Electrochemical gradient
An electrochemical gradient is a gradient of electrochemical potential, usually for an ion that can move across a membrane.
See Shivering and Electrochemical gradient
Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.
Fever
Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.
Frisson
Frisson (French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals) that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia (skin tingling or chills), sometimes along with piloerection (goose bumps) and mydriasis (pupil dilation).
Glycerol
Glycerol, also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound.
Goose bumps
Goose bumps, goosebumps or goose-pimples (also called chill bumps) are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal. Shivering and goose bumps are Reflexes.
Homeostasis
In biology, homeostasis (British also homoeostasis) is the state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions maintained by living systems.
Hypothalamus
The hypothalamus (hypothalami) is a small part of the vertebrate brain that contains a number of nuclei with a variety of functions.
See Shivering and Hypothalamus
Mitochondrion
A mitochondrion is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi.
See Shivering and Mitochondrion
Myoclonus
Myoclonus is a brief, involuntary, irregular (lacking rhythm) twitching of a muscle, a joint, or a group of muscles, different from clonus, which is rhythmic or regular.
Norepinephrine
Norepinephrine (NE), also called noradrenaline (NA) or noradrenalin, is an organic chemical in the catecholamine family that functions in the brain and body as a hormone, neurotransmitter and neuromodulator.
See Shivering and Norepinephrine
Post-micturition convulsion syndrome
In neurourology, post-micturition convulsion syndrome (PMCS), also known informally as pee shivers or piss shivers, is the experience of shivering during or after urination.
See Shivering and Post-micturition convulsion syndrome
Postanesthetic shivering
Postanesthetic shivering (PAS) is shivering after anesthesia.
See Shivering and Postanesthetic shivering
Reflex
In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus. Shivering and reflex are Reflexes.
Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Spinal cord
The spinal cord is a long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue that extends from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column (backbone) of vertebrate animals.
Surface-area-to-volume ratio
The surface-area-to-volume ratio or surface-to-volume ratio (denoted as SA:V, SA/V, or sa/vol) is the ratio between surface area and volume of an object or collection of objects.
See Shivering and Surface-area-to-volume ratio
Thermoregulation
Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.
See Shivering and Thermoregulation
Third ventricle
The third ventricle is one of the four connected cerebral ventricles of the ventricular system within the mammalian brain.
See Shivering and Third ventricle
Tremor
A tremor is an involuntary, somewhat rhythmic, muscle contraction and relaxation involving oscillations or twitching movements of one or more body parts.
Triglyceride
A triglyceride (from tri- and glyceride; also TG, triacylglycerol, TAG, or triacylglyceride) is an ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids.
See Shivering and Triglyceride
Warm-blooded
Warm-blooded is an informal term referring to animal species whose bodies maintain a temperature higher than that of their environment.
See Shivering and Warm-blooded
References
Also known as Shiver, Shuddering.