HEATSTROKE meaning: Severe overheating, body's cooling fails

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heatstroke: Merriam-Webster
heatstroke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
heatstroke: Collins English Dictionary
heatstroke: Vocabulary.com
Heatstroke, heatstroke: Wordnik
heatstroke: Wiktionary
heatstroke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
heatstroke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
heatstroke: Infoplease Dictionary
heatstroke: Dictionary.com
Heatstroke (disambiguation), Heatstroke (film), Heatstroke (song), Heatstroke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
heatstroke: Rhymezone
heatstroke: FreeDictionary.org
heatstroke: Mnemonic Dictionary
heatstroke: TheFreeDictionary.com
heatstroke: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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heatstroke: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)

heatstroke: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Heatstroke: Merck Manuals
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heatstroke: Medical dictionary
Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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heatstroke: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun: Alternative spelling of heat stroke. [(medicine, countable or uncountable) An illness caused by overheating a person or animal beyond its body's capacity to regulate internal temperature.]

Opposite:

hypothermia

Types:

exertional, classic, drug-induced, neonatal, more...

Adjectives:

exertional, classic, fatal, induced, classical, severe, related, acute, slight, rat, threatening

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