diaphoresis
Americannoun
noun
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a technical name for sweating See sweat
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perceptible and excessive sweating; sweat
Etymology
Origin of diaphoresis
1675–85; < Late Latin < Greek: a sweating, equivalent to diaphorē- (verbid stem of diaphoreîn to carry off or through) + -sis -sis
Vocabulary lists containing diaphoresis
Example Sentences
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The bark is scraped from the trunk and a decoction thereof is used to induce diaphoresis.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James
I have seen valuable lives sacrificed by obstinate persistence in measures to promote diaphoresis, more especially in the later hours of the paroxysm or in the succeeding or calm stage.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Used as a vapor-bath it produces abundant diaphoresis, and the infusion given internally has a like effect.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
The mother stated that the child had taken only two doses, or one-sixteenth of a grain, of pilocarpine when the diuretic effect was apparent and free diaphoresis also occurred.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Free diaphoresis resulted from the pilocarpine, and the quantity of urine was increased.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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