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Perspiration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Perspiration has 2 senses
- perspiration(n = noun.body) sudor, sweat - salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow" is a kind of secretion
- perspiration(n = noun.process) diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating - the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process" is a kind of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
Derived form verb perspire1
has particulars: hyperhidrosis, hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis
Derived form verb perspire1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Perspiration, n. [Cf. F. perspiration.].
- The act or process of perspiring. [1913 Webster]
- That which is excreted through the skin; sweat. [1913 Webster]" A man of average weight throws off through the skin during 24 hours about 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic acid gas. Ordinarily, this constant exhalation is not apparent, and the excretion is then termed insensible perspiration." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Perspiration, n.
1 = SWEAT.
2 sweating.
1 = SWEAT.
2 sweating.
Derivative
perspiratory adj.
Etymology
F (as PERSPIRE)
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Perspiration
BO, beaded brow, beads of sweat, body odor, cold sweat, dampness, diaphoresis, exudate, exudation, honest sweat, lather, perspiration odor, streams of sweat, sudor, sudoresis, sweat, sweating, swelter, water, wetnessROGET THESAURUS
Perspiration
Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.Excretion
N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.
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