heat exhaustion

noun

a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.

heat exhaustion

a condition resulting from exposure to intense heat, characterized by dizziness, abdominal cramp, and prostration Also calledheat prostration Compare heatstroke

First recorded in 1935–40

The symptoms of fainting, shock, and heat exhaustion are very similar.

Anyone is liable to sunstroke or heat exhaustion if exposed to excessive heat.

Their water would run out and heat exhaustion would get them before they were halfway to anywhere.

It will weaken you and favor heat exhaustion, sunstroke, frost bite and other serious troubles.

In hot weather, dizziness is a first warning sign of heat exhaustion, which can lead to heatstroke.

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