单词 | sunstroke |
释义 | sunstroken. Acute illness caused by or attributed to exposure to the sun; heat-induced illness of varying severity; an instance of this.Often used for a severe form of heat-induced illness characterized by very high body temperature, hot and dry skin, headache, and mental confusion, sometimes progressing to coma and death (now usually called heatstroke).electric sunstroke: see electric adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > sunstroke or heatstroke sun heatOE calenture1593 insolation1758 coup de soleil1772 sunstroke1787 star-stroke1837 touch of the sun1867 thermoplegia1909 1787 T. Girdlestone Ess. Hepatitis & Spasmodic Affections India 59 In the first or mildest attacks of the sun stroke, it exhibits the phænomena of a synocha. 1851 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes xxxvii. 188 Warding off sun-strokes with huge heavy umbrellas of two thicknesses of blue cotton. 1865 C. Dickens Let. 13 Sept. (1999) XI. 91 I got a slight sun-stroke last Thursday. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 653 The terrible mortality of sunstroke. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xii. 302 Sun-stroke is a mild form of heat-stroke, and is caused by the heat rays rather than by the actinic rays of the sun. 1965 E. Mannin Burning Bush i. vi. 70 I hope you are fully recovered from your sunstroke? 2013 Scotsman (Nexis) 20 July Older people are at a higher risk of sunstroke so it would also be worth checking in on an elderly neighbour to make sure they are safe and well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1787 |
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