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Heat stress

Metabolic response to heat exposure producing heat rash, cramps, exhaustion, or stroke.

Continuum of physiological strain from elevated environmental and metabolic heat loads, ranging from mild heat rash and cramps to life-threatening heat stroke.

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  • Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism, 8th ed. (Gropper)Glossary

    Continuum of physiological strain from elevated environmental and metabolic heat loads, ranging from mild heat rash and cramps to life-threatening heat stroke.

Related terms

Thermogenesis, Thermoregulation