Meanings
alternative bromhidrosis
- uncountablemedicineFetid or foul-smelling perspiration.
1 more example
Thus I had under treatment a patient who otherwise did not show the least traces of bromhidrosis, but whenever he began to perspire more freely, as after eating and drinking heartily or by active exercise, so offensive an exhalation spread around him that he was forced to shun all social intercourse.
1885, Hugo Ziemssen, editor, Handbook of Diseases of the Skin, page 506Synonyms: body odour, osmidrosis
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFetid or foul-smelling perspiration.
Origin
From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “foul-smelling”) + ῑ̔δρώς (hīdrṓs, “sweat”) + -ωσῐς (-ōsĭs, “condition”), a Neo-Classical compound meaning the condition of foul-smelling sweating.
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