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bromhidrosis

bromhidrosis is the alternative form of bromidrosis.

Meaning of bromidrosis

Noun

bromidrosis (uncountable)

  1. Fetid or foul-smelling perspiration.
    • Thus I had under treatment a patient who otherwise did not show the least traces of bromhidrosis, but whenever he began to perspire more freely, as after eating and drinking heartily or by active exercise, so offensive an exhalation spread around him that he was forced to shun all social...1885, Hugo Ziemssen, editor, Handbook of Diseases of the Skin, page 506

Questions about bromhidrosis

What is bromhidrosis the alternative form of?
Bromhidrosis is the alternative form of bromidrosis.

Words near bromhidrosis in the dictionary

  1. Bromfield
  2. Bromford
  3. Bromham
  4. Bromhams
  5. bromhexine
  6. bromhidrosis
  7. bromhydrate
  8. bromhydrates
  9. bromian
  10. bromic
  11. bromic acid

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