diaphoreses

Noun

diaphoresis (countable and uncountable, plural diaphoreses)

1. The formation and excretion of sweat.

   Synonyms:

   sweating, perspiration, hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis

   Antonyms:

   adiaphoresis, anhidrosis, ischidrosis

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