sunstroke

sunstroke
A severe disturbance of the body, caused by excessive exposure to the sun or even to artificial heat, resulting in convulsion and coma. Anno: 117 ALR 740; 36 ALR2d 1105. An exhaustive search of the authorities appears to make it clear that the term may be applied with propriety to a condition produced by artificial heat as well as by the heat of the sun, and that the best usage warrants it; that such condition is comprehended within the ordinary meaning of the word wherever it is used with care and precision, whether in technical scientific treatises, or in works designed for the general reader. Continental Casualty Co. v Johnson, 74 Kan 129, 85 P 545.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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