heat exhaustion
- a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
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Origin of heat exhaustion
First recorded in 1935–40
Also called heat prostration.
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Although the brutes have the smallest modicum of brains, they are very liable to attacks of illness from heat-exhaustion.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898Bennet Burleigh
heat exhaustion
- a condition resulting from exposure to intense heat, characterized by dizziness, abdominal cramp, and prostrationAlso called: heat prostration Compare heatstroke
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heat exhaustion
- A condition caused by exposure to heat, marked by prostration, weakness, and collapse, resulting from unrecognized or unavoidable dehydration.heat prostration
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