heat hyperpyrexia

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   collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat

   Synonymsheatstroke

   Broadercollapse

   Narrowerheat exhaustionsunstroke

Questions about heat hyperpyrexia

What does heat hyperpyrexia mean?

heat hyperpyrexia means "collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat".

What is another word for heat hyperpyrexia?

Close synonyms include heatstroke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heat hyperpyrexia a common word?

heat hyperpyrexia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.