HYPERTHERMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperthermia mean? 

• HYPERTHERMIA (noun)
  The noun HYPERTHERMIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)

  Familiarity information: HYPERTHERMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERTHERMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hyperthermia; hyperthermy

Hypernyms ("hyperthermia" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hyperthermia"):

hyperpyrexia (extremely high fever (especially in children))

Antonym:

hypothermia (subnormal body temperature)

 Context examples 

The Landrace breed is susceptible to Porcine stress syndrome and malignant hyperthermia under anesthetic.

(Landrace Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of highly-conserved proteins that are synthesized in response to hyperthermia (heat shock), hypoxia, or other stresses that appear to increase cellular thermal tolerance and enable cells to recover from stress.

(Heat Shock Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Electrodiathermy is a type of hyperthermia therapy.

(Electrodiathermy, NCI Dictionary)

Diathermy is a type of hyperthermia therapy.

(Diathermy, NCI Dictionary)

This agent may stimulate tumor necrosis and promote shunting of blood flow to viable regions of the tumor, increasing their oxygenation and rendering them more susceptible to the antitumor effects of hyperthermia and ionizing radiation.

(Mitoflaxone, NCI Thesaurus)