hyperthermia

IPA: haɪpɝθˈɝmiʌ

(pathology) The condition of having an abnormally high body temperature caused by a failure of the heat-regulating mechanisms of the body to deal with the heat coming from the environment.
(medicine) The therapeutic application of heat to a patient, especially as treatment to cancer.

Examples of "hyperthermia" in Sentences

Heatstroke, also known as hyperthermia, is different from having a fever, Dr. Hubbard says.
Null says at least 494 children have died since 1998 from heatstroke also known as hyperthermia in vehicles in the USA.
Auburn University, said children are more susceptible to it and can develop a condition known as hyperthermia much easier than adults.
On humans, in 2007, Berlin's Charité Hospital used a technique which involved mNPs, called hyperthermia, to destroy a particularly severe form of brain cancer in 14 patients.
The nanoparticles in question are spheres of magnetite so tiny that a few thousand of them lined up would stretch a hair's width, and they have potential uses both as the basis of better data storage systems and in biological applications such as hyperthermia treatment for cancer.
Dr. Nisar Syed of The Long Beach Cancer Institute, Chancellor of American College of Radiation Oncology, explained: "Oncosensor has the potential to significantly enhance the eradication of malignant tumors by the heat treatment known as hyperthermia, by pointing to the surgeons the area of least oxygenated tissue."