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hyperthermia
(redirected from Heat-stroke)

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hyperthermia [‚hī·pər′thər·mē·ə]
(physiology)
A condition of elevated body temperature.


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In a heat-stroke victim, the brain gets so hot it shuts down, cutting off these cooling systems.
The coaches had heard that Stringer died six days after the heat-stroke death of a University of Florida freshman during voluntary summer conditioning drills.
 
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