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Suppression of shivering by breath holding, relaxation, mental arithmetic, and warm water ingestion

D J Israel1, L E Wittmers, R G Hoffman

  • 1Department of Medical and Molecular Physiology, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine, Duluth 55812.

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine
|December 1, 1993
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