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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Perspiration, especially when copious and medically induced.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In medicine, perspiration, especially when artificially produced.

Wiktionary

  1. n. physiology Perspiration, especially when profuse and medically induced.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Greek, from diaphorein, to disperse : dia-, dia- + phorein, to convey, frequentative of pherein, to carry; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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