sunstroke

Noun

sunstroke (plural sunstrokes)

1. Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
   • But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that...1885, Henry Walter Bellew, The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881, page 815
   • Idiopathic non-septic periencephalitis may be produced by profound grief, protracted anxiety, especially when accompanied by great overwork, partial starvation combined with the gnawing anxiety of deep poverty, and also, it is affirmed, by sunstroke.1896, Horatio C. Wood, The Practice of Medicine, page 513