heat stroke

See also: heatstroke

English

Alternative forms

• heatstroke

Noun

heat stroke (countable and uncountable, plural heat strokes)

1. (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

• sunstroke

Translations

severe hyperthermia

• Asturian: golpe de calor m
• Catalan: colp de calor m, insolació f
• Danish: hedeslag
• Dutch: zonnesteek (nl) m
• Finnish: lämpöhalvaus
• French: coup de chaleur (fr) m
• Galician: golpe de calor m, fervón m
• German: Hitzschlag (de) m, Hitzeschlag (de) m
• Greek: θερμοπληξία (el) f (thermoplixía)
• Hungarian: hőguta (hu)
• Ido: kalenturo (io)
• Japanese: 熱中症 (ja) (netchūshō), 熱射病 (ja) (nesshabyō)
• Korean: 열사병(熱射病) (ko) (yeolsabyeong)
• Polish: udar cieplny m
• Portuguese: insolação (pt) f
• Romanian: insolație (ro) f
• Russian: теплово́й уда́р (ru) m (teplovój udár)
• Spanish: golpe de calor m
• Swedish: värmeslag n
• Turkish: sıcak çarpması
• Ukrainian: теплови́й уда́р m (teplovýj udár)
• Zazaki: germ prodayen