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sudoriparous

[soo-duh-rip-er-uh s]
adjective
  1. producing or secreting sweat.
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Origin of sudoriparous

1850–55; < Latin sūdor sweat (see sudoriferous) + -i- + -parous
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Historical Examples

  • These excretory processes of the skin are effected by means of very minute vessels called the sudoriparous or sweat-glands.

    Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II

    Arnold Cooley

  • Mammary glands of the sudoriparous and not the sebaceous type of epidermic gland.

sudoriparous in Medicine

sudoriparous

(sōō′də-rĭp′ər-əs)
adj.
  1. Secreting sweat.
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