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noun
A medical condition with the primary symptom of excessive sweating, in excess of that required for regulation of body temperature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
excessive and profuse perspiration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis
History
From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from hyper- + hidrosis.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
