heliosis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἡλίωσις (hēlíōsis, “exposure to the sun”). By surface analysis, helio- + -osis.
Noun
[edit]heliosis (usually uncountable, plural helioses)
- Sunstroke.
- Sunburn.
- Exposure to the sun.
- Scorching of plants by the sun.
- (historical) A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
- 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:
- The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.
- 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:
- The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]sunstroke
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