Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Heat stroke caused by exposure to the sun and characterized by a rise in temperature, convulsions, and coma. Also called insolation, siriasis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Acute prostration from excessive heat of weather. Two forms may be distinguished—one of sudden collapse without pyrexia (heat-exhaustion), the other with very marked pyrexia (thermic fever: see
fever ). The same effects may be produced by heat which is not of solar origin. - n. Same as folletage.
Wiktionary
- n. Heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat
Examples
“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.”
Urgent Global Warning - Immediate Medical Attention Required
“If a young lady has sunstroke, that is a matter of no significance to the universe.”
A Passage To India
“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.”
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
“Heat stroke, sometimes called sunstroke, is the most serious heat-related illness.”
“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”
“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.”
Report of Vice-Consul R.E. Heide, on the resources, trade and commerce of North Carolina.
“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.”
“It was just sunstroke and animal bones and the wind.”
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bilby I like the 'sudden prostration' bit. Nov 11, 2008