Meanings
plural diaphoreses
- countableuncountablemedicineThe formation and excretion of sweat.
Synonyms: sweating, perspiration, hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis · Antonyms: adiaphoresis, anhidrosis, ischidrosis
- countableuncountablesometimes more particularlymedicineExcessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
The train of symptoms which mark the typhoid variety of scarlatina generally begin to decline about the tenth or twelfth day, when the case often lapses into a condition similar to rheumatic fever, without its characteristic diaphoreses.
1865, William J. Cummins, “Remarks on Scarlatina”, in The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 39, number 1, page 14Synonyms: sweating, perspiration, hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis, hyperhidrosis, hidrosis · Antonyms: adiaphoresis, anhidrosis, ischidrosis, hypohidrosis
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe formation and excretion of sweat.
nounExcessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
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Origin
- Ancient Greekδῐᾰφόρησῐς“evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”
- Late Latindiaphorēsis
- Englishdiaphoresis
Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (dĭăphórēsĭs, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); by surface analysis, dia- (“through, across”) + -phoresis (“transmission”); also synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.
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