sunstroke
IPA: sˈʌnstroʊk
noun
- (pathology) Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
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Examples of "sunstroke" in Sentences
- Cases of sunstroke are not rare.
- His suicide was not brought on by sunstroke.
- The parents did mistake a fever for sunstroke.
- His condition was initially thought to be sunstroke.
- It was just sunstroke and animal bones and the wind.
- Many died as a result of sunstroke and lack of water.
- Iris' mental confusion is due to sunstroke, not a blow to the head.
- Along the road, spectators with sunstroke were dropping like flies.
- Heat exhaustion, sunstroke, and disease took a heavy toll of human life.
- Yesterday it went right up to 18C, a right heat wave, sunstroke and tans.
- He died in Hicksville, California in 1867 after a severe case of sunstroke.
- Heat stroke, sometimes called sunstroke, is the most serious heat-related illness.
- If a young lady has sunstroke, that is a matter of no significance to the universe.
- I need to have reason to know all of the symptoms of sunstroke, which I had memorized by the time I was twelve.
- “Music for you makes sense,” Fancy was saying, longing for a heat rash or sunstroke so that she would have a reason not to go to Cherry Glade.
- The cold of winter rarely reaches 10° (Fahrenheit) and sunstroke which is so common and fatal in many of the Northern States during the summer is almost unknown here.
- Yes! and there are a great many more that belong to the tropics; as there is such a thing as sunstroke, which is, perhaps, as dangerous as the cramping cold from the icebergs of the north.
- The term sunstroke is applied to affections occasioned not exclusively by exposure to the sun's rays, as the word signifies, but by the action of great heat combined generally with humid atmosphere.
- Unless action is taken to reduce the core body temperature of the patient to the normal 98. 6º F the current fever at a temperature of 100. 1º F (1. 5º F above) will continue to rise to where the patient reaches 104º F (5. 4º F above normal) resulting in the condition more commonly know as sunstroke or heat stroke.
- As a rule people have no word for expressing a thing which does not come within their own range of experience; for instance, no one would expect that Arabs, or Somalis, or the inhabitants of the Sahara would have any equivalent for either skating or tobogganing, nor do I imagine that the Eskimo have any expression for "sunstroke" or