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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
heatstroke
noun
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▪ After a heroic week of earth moving, he went down with heatstroke.
▪ As the victim's temperature rises higher and higher, they suffer internal heatstroke and all their organs gradually fail.
▪ Guys would pass out from heatstroke.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
heatstroke

heatstroke \heatstroke\ n. A physiological disturbance caused by exposure to excessive heat, resulting in rapid pulse, hot dry skin, and fever, leading to loss of consciousness.

Wiktionary
heatstroke

n. (context pathology English) A severe case of hyperthermia in which body temperature rises above 40.8°C or 105.1 °F.

WordNet
heatstroke

n. collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat [syn: heat hyperpyrexia]

Wikipedia
Heatstroke (film)

Heatstroke is a Sci Fi Channel original movie. The film stars D. B. Sweeney and Danica McKellar. It was made by the team that made Farscape. The film was written by Richard Manning and David Kemper, produced by David Kemper, and directed by Andrew Prowse.

Usage examples of "heatstroke".

When the air is hot and moist, perspiration, which ordinarily by its evaporation cools the temperature of the body, does not evaporate but remains in drops upon the skin, while the body accumulates heat until temperature is so high that a heatstroke is brought on.

Initially, the project called for shore-to-shore cabanas, ersatz beaches and a gift shop to sell the sort of tasteful merchandise that heatstroked, booze-addled tourists seem to favor.

Behind him, he could hear a sudden stirring as crewers on the brink of heatstroke dragged themselves awake to the realization that the long ordeal was almost over.

Water ice at its melting point-zero centigrade-would give heatstroke to a Mesklinite.