SUNSTROKE Definition & Meaning

sunstroke

[ suhn-strohk ]

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noun

Pathology.

a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.

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noun

heatstroke caused by prolonged exposure to intensely hot sunlight

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Origin of sunstroke¹

First recorded in 1850–55; sun + stroke ¹

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"He suffered a sunstroke last year because he was working under the hot sun."

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Initially doctors thought she had sunstroke, says Caroline, but an MRI scan revealed it was more serious and she was flown back to the UK by air ambulance.

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“I didn’t know what sunstroke was, and nobody had told me what could happen.”

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On the first day, said Mr. Gao, 39, he had sunstroke.

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She was admitted to The Grange University Hospital with suspected sunstroke but later diagnosed with viral meningitis and put into an induced coma.

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