heliosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἡλίωσις (hēlíōsis, “exposure to the sun”). By surface analysis, helio- +‎ -osis.

Noun

heliosis (usually uncountable, plural helioses)

1. Sunstroke.
2. Sunburn.
3. Exposure to the sun.
4. Scorching of plants by the sun.
5. (historical) A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
   • 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:

     The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.

   • 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:

     The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).

Derived terms

• dermatoheliosis

Translations

sunstroke

• Bulgarian: слънчев удар m (slǎnčev udar)
• Finnish: helioosi