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Question
How does our skin provide protection to our body against the following?
Excessive loss of heat in severe cold ____________
Solution
Excessive loss of heat in severe cold: Skin prevents energy loss from the body. It conserves body heat in cold weather and facilitates loss of heat in hot weather.
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