| Sunstroke (n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil. Thesaurus Entries Minamata disease, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, black lung, caisson disease, calenture, chilblain, coup de soleil, decompression sickness, frostbite, heat prostration, immersion foot, insolation, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, motion sickness, pneumoconiosis, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, the bends, thermic fever, trench foot |