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Diaphoresis  n.  (Med.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.






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"Diaphoresis" Quotes from Famous Books



... rapid walk or trot for twenty miles or more, after which he administered copious draughts of a hot decoction of broom tops, as much for its moral effect as for its value in sustaining and prolonging established diaphoresis. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various

... vomit, purge, or sweat, either according to the quantity exhibited, or as a part of what is given is evacuated. Thus a quarter of a grain of emetic tartar (if well prepared) will promote a diaphoresis, if the skin be kept warm; half a grain will procure a stool or two first, and sweating afterwards; and a grain will generally vomit, and then purge, and lastly sweat the patient. In less quantity it is probable, that this medicine acts like other ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



Words linked to "Diaphoresis" :   bodily process, activity, sudation, diaphoretic, bodily function, polyhidrosis, hyperidrosis, perspiration, hidrosis, hyperhidrosis, body process



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