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Descriptor English: Sunstroke
Descriptor Spanish: Insolación
Descriptor insolación
Scope note: Trastorno producido por la exposición al sol y caracterizado por convulsiones, coma y temperatura cutánea elevada. (Dorland, 28a ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Insolação
Descriptor French: Insolation
Entry term(s): Sun Stroke
Sun Strokes
Sunstrokes
Tree number(s): C26.522.500.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013474
Scope note: Heat stroke caused by exposure to the sun. It is characterized by dangerously high BODY TEMPERATURE; red, hot skin; DELUSIONS; CONVULSIONS; or COMA. It can be a life-threatening emergency and is most common in infants and the elderly.
Annotation: HEAT STROKE is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 13862
Unique ID: D013474
NLM Classification: WD 610
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Sunstroke - Preferred
Concept UI M0020817
Scope note Heat stroke caused by exposure to the sun. It is characterized by dangerously high BODY TEMPERATURE; red, hot skin; DELUSIONS; CONVULSIONS; or COMA. It can be a life-threatening emergency and is most common in infants and the elderly.
Preferred term Sunstroke
Entry term(s) Sun Stroke
Sun Strokes
Sunstrokes



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