Meanings
- uncountablemedicineExcessive sweating in the armpits; axillary hyperhidrosis.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἱδρώς“sweat”
- New Latinhidrōsis
- Ancient Greekὑπέρ“over, excessive”
- Ancient Greekμασχάλη“armpit, axilla”
- Englishmaschalyperidrosis
From maschal- (“axilla”) + (hy)per- (“over, excessive”) + (h)idrosis (“sweating”), from Ancient Greek μασχάλη (maskhálē, “armpit, axilla”), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, excessive”), and New Latin hidrōsis, from Ancient Greek ἱδρώς (hidrṓs, “sweat”) + -sis; also synchronically held to end in the suffix -osis.
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