hypertermiaan

Hypertermiaan is a term used in speculative fiction and some theoretical discussions to describe a syndrome of extreme thermoregulation dysfunction. It is not recognized in real-world medicine, and there are no official diagnostic criteria or treatments.

The term combines a heat-related root with a Dutch suffix often used in descriptive or fictional terms, signaling a condition characterized by abnormal sensitivity to temperature.

In fictional portrayals, episodes feature abrupt rises in core temperature, intolerance to heat, profuse sweating, tachycardia, headaches, dizziness, and cognitive symptoms such as confusion or irritability. Between episodes, individuals may feel normal, with a variable resting body temperature.

In these contexts, causes are speculative: malfunction of the hypothalamic set-point, genetic mutations, mitochondrial dysfunction, or environmental triggers. The imagined pathology often serves to explore the ethics and consequences of temperature control technologies or biomedical interventions.

Diagnosis relies on narrative-driven clinical history and exclusion of real conditions such as heat stroke. In practical terms, management emphasizes cooling strategies, hydration, rest, and avoidance of overheating, sometimes augmented by fictional therapies or devices described within the work.

Hypertermiaan appears in various works of science fiction and related thought experiments about thermoregulation, sometimes framed as a developmental or hereditary condition, and other times as a consequence of experimental interventions or alien biology.

See also: hyperthermia, thermoregulation, heat illness.