Medical Dictionary

heat cramps

noun pl

Medical Definition of HEAT CRAMPS

:  a condition that is marked by sudden development of cramps in skeletal muscles and that results from prolonged work in high temperatures accompanied by profuse perspiration with loss of sodium chloride from the body

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