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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A severe condition caused by impairment of the body's temperature-regulating abilities, resulting from prolonged exposure to excessive heat and characterized by cessation of sweating, severe headache, high fever, hot dry skin, and in serious cases collapse and coma.
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- noun
illness caused byoverheating the human body
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