heat prostration

American  

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. heat exhaustion.

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heat prostration British  

noun

1. another name for heat exhaustion

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Etymology

Origin of heat prostration

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Then he lost to Jimmy Young in 1977, found God in a haze of heat prostration, and retired.

From Time Magazine Archive

Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fifth got down safely, but�still unconscious from morphine�died of heat prostration in the desert.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she could not, strong-minded as she was, avert something like a heat prostration after a long walk under a burning sun, nor weeks of confinement and idleness in her room afterward.

From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins