Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, producing a very slight, insensible perspiration; gently diaphoretic.
  • noun A remedial agent which produces a very slight, insensible perspiration; a mild diaphoretic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine, obsolete, rare Slightly increasing perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek dia- + πνοή ("breath") + -ic

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