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diaphanous |
diapheromera |
diapheromera femorata |
diaphone |
diaphony |
diaphoresis
| diaphoretic
| diaphragm
| diaphragmatic hernia
| diaphragmatic pleurisy
| diaphyseal
diaphoresis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun diaphoresis has 1 sense
- diaphoresis(n = noun.process) hidrosis, perspiration, 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
has particulars: hyperhidrosis, hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis
Derived form adjective diaphoretic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
diaphoresis, n. Med. sweating, esp. artificially induced.
Etymology
LL f. Gk f. diaphoreo carry through
ROGET THESAURUS
diaphoresis
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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