diaphoresis

Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (dĭăphórēsĭs, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); by surface analysis, dia- (“through, across”) +‎ -phoresis (“transmission”); also synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.ə.fəˈɹiː.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

diaphoresis (countable and uncountable, plural diaphoreses)

2. (physiology, medicine) The formation and excretion of sweat.

   Synonyms: sweating, perspiration; (in medical usage) hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis

   Antonyms: adiaphoresis, anhidrosis, ischidrosis

   Hyponyms: (excessive) hyperhidrosis; (insufficient) hypohidrosis

   2. (physiology, medicine, sometimes more particularly) Excessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).

      Synonyms: hyperhidrosis, hidrosis

      Antonym: hypohidrosis

      • 1865, William J. Cummins, “Remarks on Scarlatina”, in The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science‎^[1], volume 39, number 1, page 14:

        The train of symptoms which mark the typhoid variety of scarlatina generally begin to decline about the tenth or twelfth day, when the case often lapses into a condition similar to rheumatic fever, without its characteristic diaphoreses.

• “diaphoresis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “diaphoresis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (dĭăphórēsĭs, “evaporation, dissipation”), from δῐᾰφορέω (dĭăphoréō, “to dissipate by evaporation or perspiration”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs, action noun suffix).

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.a.foˈrɛː.s̬is]

diaphorēsis f (genitive diaphorēsis or diaphorēseōs or diaphorēsios); third declension (Late Latin)

1. (physiology) perspiration, diaphoresis

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• → English: diaphoresis