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Monitoring rectal core temperature in marathon swimmers

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Finlay, J.B., Lysynski, B., Liggins, A.B. et al. Monitoring rectal core temperature in marathon swimmers. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 34, 97–100 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02637030

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