hyperthermia

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) +‎ θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)ˈθɜː(ɹ)miə/

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Noun

hyperthermia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperthermias)

1. (pathology) The condition of having an abnormally high body temperature caused by a failure of the heat-regulating mechanisms of the body to deal with the heat coming from the environment.

   Synonym: heatstroke

   Antonym: hypothermia

   • 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future‎^[1], Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

     Hyperthermia, that's just a word. The reality is different. You can't breathe. Sweating doesn't work. You're being roasted, like meat in an oven, and you can feel that.

2. (medicine) The therapeutic application of heat to a patient, especially as treatment to cancer.

   Synonym: thermotherapy

Derived terms

• hyperthermic

Translations

medical condition

• Belarusian: гіпертэрмі́я f (hipjertermíja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高熱／高热 (zh) (gāorè), 中暑 (zh) (zhòngshǔ)

• Czech: přehřátí n
• Finnish: lämpöhalvaus, hypertermia
• French: hyperthermie (fr)
• German: Hyperthermie (de) f
• Greek: υπερθερμία (el) f (yperthermía)
• Ido: kalenturo (io)
• Italian: ipertermia (it) f
• Japanese: 熱中症 (ja) (ねっちゅうしょう, ねっちゅうしょう, nettchūshō)
• Polish: hipertermia (pl) f, przegrzanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: hipertermia (pt) f
• Romanian: hipertermie (ro) f
• Russian: гипертерми́я (ru) f (gipertermíja)
• Spanish: hipertermia f
• Turkish: hipertermi
• Ukrainian: гіпертермі́я f (hipertermíja)

therapeutic application of heat

• Finnish: indusoitu hypertermia, lämpöhoito

See also

• fever
• hyperpyrexia

Further reading

• hyperthermia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia