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Definition of Heat prostration
1. Noun. A condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes.
Medical Definition of Heat prostration
1. A form of heat illness that results when the victim is dehydrated (fluid depleted). Common symptoms include: fatigue, lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, headache, rapid heartbeat and lowered blood pressure. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heat Prostration
Literary usage of Heat prostration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1920)
"heat prostration, frost bite, fainting, dizziness, nervous breakdown, strain and
contraction of communicable disease may be compensatable accidents ..."
2. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"heat prostration AND SUNSTROKE It is customary to divide the cases of illness
due to excessive exposure to high temperature into two "lasses: one is ..."
3. The Principles of Therapeutics by Oliver Thomas Osborne (1921)
"heat prostration—HEAT STROKE This condition presents an entirely different set
of symptoms from those of sunstroke. It is a collapse that may be fatal, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Another form of affection resulting from exposure to heat is HEAT EXHAUSTION, or
heat prostration, in which there is a very different set of symptoms. ..."
5. Manual of Static Electricity in X-ray and Therapeutic Uses by Samuel Howard Monell (1897)
"Benefits to patients treated by static electricity. Chronic effects of shock.
Methods of treating patients. Chronic effects of heat prostration. ..."
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