heat prostration

1. 1.

   a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes

   Synonymsheat exhaustion

   Broaderheatstroke

Questions about heat prostration

What does heat prostration mean?

heat prostration means "a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes".

What is another word for heat prostration?

Close synonyms include heat exhaustion. 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 prostration a common word?

heat prostration 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.