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noun
The formation and excretion of sweat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sweating, perspiration, hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis
Antonyms: adiaphoresis, anhidrosis, ischidrosis
noun
The formation and excretion of sweat.
Excessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: sometimes more particularly
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sweating, perspiration, hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis, hyperhidrosis
Antonyms: adiaphoresis, anhidrosis, ischidrosis, hypohidrosis
noun
the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: perspiration, sweating, sudation, hidrosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
Narrower terms: hyperhidrosis, hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis
History
Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (dĭăphórēsĭs, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); by surface analysis, dia- (“through, across”) + -phoresis (“transmission”); also synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.
