Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or fitted to check perspiration.
- noun Any medicinal agent which checks perspiration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective lacking the
ability tosweat - noun A
substance thatprevents sweating
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Florida, said many different therapies have been used over the years in an attempt to get anhidrotic horses sweating again, but most of them do not work.
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Srivastava AK, Montonen O, Zonana J, Thomas N, et al. (1996) X − linked anhidrotic (hypohidrotic) ectodermal dysplasia is caused by mutation in a novel transmembrane protein.
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Mutations in the IKKγ gene including different truncations of the IKKγ protein have been linked to the human syndromes of incontinentia pigmenti and anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia associated with immunodeficiency
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