Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inflammation of the sweat-glands.

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  • noun medicine inflammation of the sweat glands

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Examples

  • This condition is known as hidradenitis suppurativa.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • If you suffer from a condition called hidradenitis supurativa, it is better to use aerosol deodorants and avoid shaving.

    The Beauty Brains 2009

  • Yes, just in the past year, she said; she’d had three bouts of pneumonia, and a painful, weeping inflammation of her sweat glands called hidradenitis.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Yes, just in the past year, she said; she’d had three bouts of pneumonia, and a painful, weeping inflammation of her sweat glands called hidradenitis.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Yes, just in the past year, she said; she’d had three bouts of pneumonia, and a painful, weeping inflammation of her sweat glands called hidradenitis.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Reuters reports, Karl Marx, who complained of excruciating boils, actually suffered from a chronic skin disease with known psychological effects that may well have influenced his writings, a British expert said on Tuesday. ...hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem, said Shuster,...

    EconLog: Political Economy Archives 2009

  • Sam Shuster, professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia, believes the revolutionary thinker had hidradenitis suppurativa HS in which the apocrine sweat glands – found mainly in the armpits and groin – become blocked and inflamed.

    Nunc Scio » 2007 » October 2007

  • “In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem,” said Dr. Shuster, who published his findings in the British Journal of Dermatology.

    Nunc Scio » 2007 » October 2007

  • Sam Shuster, professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia, believes the revolutionary thinker had hidradenitis suppurativa HS in which the apocrine sweat glands – found mainly in the armpits and groin – become blocked and inflamed.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Marx didn’t hate capitalism, he just had bad skin 2007

  • “In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem,” said Dr. Shuster, who published his findings in the British Journal of Dermatology.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Marx didn’t hate capitalism, he just had bad skin 2007

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  • Inflammation of the sweat glands.

    April 26, 2011

  • That doesn't sound at all comfortable.

    April 27, 2011