Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sweating.

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

  • noun obsolete A sweating.

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

  • noun Perspiration; sweat (fluid).
  • noun physiology The process of perspiring.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid

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Examples

  • Without all the lipids, excessive sudation and furious heaving of course.

    06/02/2006 2006

  • The seizures are accompanied with profuse sudation, tremors, dilated nostrils, accelerated respirations and other symptoms of pain and distress, all of which, together with the lameness, disappear as rapidly as they had developed, leaving the animal in an apparently perfect state of health, ready to fall with another attack of precisely the same kind, as soon as enough exercise is forced upon it.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • There are evinced symptoms of pain, muscular tremors and sudation, but the affected member remains dry and there is a marked difference of temperature between the normal areas and the cool anemic parts.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • None the less, such copious sudation is an evil that wastefully saps vitality.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • Eyes are to be protected and wrapped with a piece of cloth while doing sudation

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  • Eyes are to be protected and wrapped with a piece of cloth while doing sudation

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  • "'The fever fell as suddenly as it rose, with a profuse laudable sudation; and if he lie quiet today, taking a little broth from time to time, he may get up tomorrow.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 27

    March 6, 2008