heat stroke
See also: heatstroke
English
Alternative forms
Noun
heat stroke (countable and uncountable, plural heat strokes)
- (medicine, countable or uncountable) An illness caused by overheating a person or animal beyond its body's capacity to regulate internal temperature.
Usage notes
- Heat stroke is normally used as a countable noun, especially in a medical context.
- I'm in the hospital because I had a heat stroke today.
- It was so hot at the race that four runners and three onlookers had a heat stroke.
- But in some contexts, especially more informal English, it can be used in an uncountable way.
- I was feeling dizzy and weak earlier, but I'm okay now, so I think it was just a touch of heat stroke.
- If it gets any hotter in there, he might move from mild hyperthermia to outright heat stroke.
Related terms
Translations
severe hyperthermia
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