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Heatstroke vs Frostbite - What's the difference?

heatstroke | frostbite |

As nouns the difference between heatstroke and frostbite

is that heatstroke is a severe case of hyperthermia in which body temperature rises above 40.8°C or 105.1 °F while frostbite is the freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body.

As a verb frostbite is

to expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.

heatstroke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) A severe case of hyperthermia in which body temperature rises above 40.8°C or 105.1 °F.

    • Related terms

    * sunstroke

    frostbite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body.

    • Verb

  • To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
  • To engage in winter sailboating.

    • Derived terms

    * frostbitten