Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
hyperhidrosis .
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- noun excessive and profuse perspiration
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Examples
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Crocker quotes the case of a tailor of sixty-five in whom hyperidrosis had existed for thirty-five years.
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During menstruation, hyperidrosis of the axillae diffuses an aromatic odor similar to that of acids or chloroform, and in suppression of menses, according to the Ephemerides, the odor is as of hops.
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Rockwell reports a case of unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought due to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic.
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Dupont has published an account of a curious case of chronic general hyperidrosis or profuse sweating which lasted upward of six years.
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Dupont 9.37 has published an account of a curious case of chronic general hyperidrosis or profuse sweating which lasted upward of six years.
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According to Dupont, this hyperidrosis was independent of any other affection, and after having been combated fruitlessly by various remedies, yielded at last to fluid extract of aconitin.
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Bachman 9.40 reports the history of a case of hyperidrosis cured by hypnotism.
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Crocker quotes the case of a tailor of sixty-five in whom hyperidrosis had existed for thirty-five years.
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During menstruation, hyperidrosis of the axillæ diffuses an aromatic odor similar to that of acids or chloroform, and in suppression of menses, according to the Ephemerides, the odor is as of hops.
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Bachman reports the history of a case of hyperidrosis cured by hypnotism.
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