sudoriparous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sudoriparous
1850–55; < Latin sūdor sweat ( see sudoriferous) + -i- + -parous
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The body is at first obese, but rapidly loses flesh, the skin becomes greasy and damp, owing to hypersecretion of the sebaceous and sudoriparous glands, and soils the garments.
From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Gina Lombroso
Even the erector pili muscle and the sudoriparous gland are often found.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The skin is thus exercised, as it were, and the sudoriparous and sebaceous glands are set at work.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
They are parts of the skin, being nothing more or less than enormous enlargements of dermal glands, either sebaceous or sudoriparous.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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