HEAT HYPERPYREXIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heat hyperpyrexia mean? 

• HEAT HYPERPYREXIA (noun)
  The noun HEAT HYPERPYREXIA has 1 sense:

1. collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat

  Familiarity information: HEAT HYPERPYREXIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAT HYPERPYREXIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

heat hyperpyrexia; heatstroke

Hypernyms ("heat hyperpyrexia" is a kind of...):

collapse; prostration (an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heat hyperpyrexia"):

heat exhaustion; heat prostration (a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes)

insolation; siriasis; sunstroke; thermic fever (sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat)