heat prostration

See heat exhaustion.

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heat prostration

(Pathology) another name for heat exhaustion

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heat′ exhaus`tion

a condition brought on by intense or prolonged exposure to heat, characterized by profuse sweating with loss of fluids and salts, pale and damp skin, rapid pulse, nausea, and dizziness, progressing to collapse. Compare heatstroke.

[1935–40]

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Noun

heat prostration - a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes

heat exhaustion

heat hyperpyrexia, heatstroke - collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat

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When temperature of the body reaches dangerous level, due to continue accumulation heat, the birds' dies from heat prostration (Al-Fataftah and Abu-Dieyeh, 2007).

An Assessment of the Growth and Profitability Potential of Meat-Type Broiler Strains under High Ambient Temperature

Many reports have described heat prostration as a pathological condition related to heat, noting that the risk of its occurrence increases in accordance with increases in temperature.

Impact of Temperature in Summer on Emergency Transportation for Heat-Related Diseases in Japan

Mimics include neuroleptic malignant syndrome, malignant hyperthermia, thyroid storm, drug fever, hypothalamic brain stem stroke, heat prostration, cancer, trauma, pancreatitis, seizures, CNS infection, and endocarditis.[sup][7] In this case, the patient was febrile and not sedated; there were no focal signs, no meningeal signs, no trauma, whereas Confusion Assessment Method indicated delirium, therefore SAE was likely.

Delirium due to sepsis-associated encephalopathy mimicking alcohol withdrawal delirium

Answer: Heat stress, or heat prostration, is a serious problem during the summer months especially when cages or aviaries have inadequate ventilation or are in an enclosed building where the sun beats down on a non-shaded roof all day.

Pet Care

On this Sunday, the victims included Betty Lou Crawford, a 14-month-old girl who passed away from heat prostration at Children's Hospital, and 34-year-old Walter Balko, who was found slumped in his car outside his home on Greeley Avenue.

A harrowing heat wave

Probably more than 100 Worcester residents died of heat prostration and sunstroke, and many more in the county.

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