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bromidrosis

bromidrosis noun: fetid or foul-smelling perspiration.

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

bromidrosis meaning in Tamil and Bengali

bromidrosis in Tamil

நாற்றச்சுவேதனம்

bromidrosis in Bengali

দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত ঘাম নির্গমন

Synonyms of bromidrosis

Forms of bromidrosis

alternative formbromhidrosis

Origin of bromidrosis

From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “foul-smelling”) + ῑ̔δρώς (hīdrṓs, “sweat”) + -ωσῐς (-ōsĭs, “condition”), a Neo-Classical compound meaning the condition of foul-smelling sweating.

Questions about bromidrosis

What does bromidrosis mean?
Bromidrosis means fetid or foul-smelling perspiration.
What is bromidrosis in Tamil?
Bromidrosis in Tamil is நாற்றச்சுவேதனம். See Bromidrosis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bromidrosis?
Bromidrosis is a noun.

Words near bromidrosis in the dictionary

  1. bromidiom
  2. bromidioms
  3. bromidism
  4. bromido
  5. bromidrosiphobia
  6. bromidrosis
  7. bromids
  8. bromigo
  9. bromigos
  10. Bromilow
  11. Bromilows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bromidrosis (page history and authors); bromidrosis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bromidrosis (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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