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Under certain external conditions, a person will perspire a great deal. For which internal condition does this response primarily provide homeostasis?

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Abnormally high temperature

Step-by-step explanation:

Sweating or perspiration is a homeostatic response to abnormally high body temperature. Evaporation of the sweat causes cooling of the body and this causes the temperature of the body to return back to normal.

When the setpoint temperature of the body is breached by being too high, the negative feedback mechanism kicks-in, and the sweat glands of the skin becomes activated. The body sweats, and the evaporation of the sweat from the surface of the skin causes cooling and a return back to the setpoint.

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