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Wounds and Injuries > Heat Stress Disorders > Heat Exhaustion

Preferred term

Heat Exhaustion  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Heat Prostration
  • Prostration, Heat

Note

  • near normal body temperature: do not confuse with HEAT STROKE where body temp is dangerously high; SUNSTROKE is also available

Scope note

  • A clinical syndrome caused by heat stress, such as over-exertion in a hot environment or excessive exposure to sun. It is characterized by SWEATING, water (volume) depletion, salt depletion, cool clammy skin, NAUSEA, and HEADACHE.

In other languages

  • lämpöuupuminen

    Finnish

  • exhaustio calorica
  • exhaustio calorica non specificata
  • lämpöekshaustio
  • lämpöuupumus
  • määrittämätön lämpöuupuminen
  • Värmeutmattning

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006359

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