heat stroke

See also: heatstroke

English

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Noun

heat stroke (countable and uncountable, plural heat strokes)

  1. (pathology, countable or uncountable) An illness caused by overheating a person or animal beyond its body's capacity to regulate internal temperature.
    Hypernym: condition
    Coordinate term: heat exhaustion (less severe)

Usage notes

  • Heat stroke is often used as a countable noun.
    • 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 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.

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