sunstroke

[suhn-strohk]

noun

Pathology.

1. a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.

sunstroke

/ ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk /

noun

1. heatstroke caused by prolonged exposure to intensely hot sunlight

Word History and Origins

Origin of sunstroke¹

First recorded in 1850–55; sun + stroke ¹

Example Sentences

It's not every day that Father Christmas finds himself briefing his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30C for days on end.

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As soon as they landed in St. John, it was as if each cast member got sunstroke and proceeded to spend the next few days going in and out of paranoia, fear and delusion.

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"He suffered a sunstroke last year because he was working under the hot sun."

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Initially doctors thought she had sunstroke, says Caroline, but an MRI scan revealed it was more serious and she was flown back to the UK by air ambulance.

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“I didn’t know what sunstroke was, and nobody had told me what could happen.”

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