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noun
Excessive sweating in the armpits; axillary hyperhidrosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From maschal- (“axilla”) + (hy)per- (“over, excessive”) + (h)idrosis (“sweating”), from Ancient Greek μασχάλη (maskhálē, “armpit, axilla”), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, excessive”), and New Latin hidrōsis, from Ancient Greek ἱδρώς (hidrṓs, “sweat”) + -sis; also synchronically held to end in the suffix -osis.
