diaphoresis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (diaphórēsis, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); equivalent to dia- (“through, across”) +‎ -phoresis (“transmission”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

diaphoresis (countable and uncountable, plural diaphoreses)

1. (physiology, medicine) The formation and excretion of sweat; sweating; perspiration; and (sometimes, more particularly):
   1. (physiology, medicine) 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).
      • 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.

Synonyms

• (both senses): hidrosis
• (excessive sweating): hyperhidrosis
• perspiration
• sudation
• sudoresis
• sweating

Derived terms

• diaphoretic

References

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.a.foˈre.sis/, [d̪iäfoˈrɛːs̬is]

Noun

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

1. (physiology) perspiration, diaphoresis

Inflection

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diaphorēsis	diaphorēsēs diaphorēseis
Genitive	diaphorēsis diaphorēseōs diaphorēsios	diaphorēsium
Dative	diaphorēsī	diaphorēsibus
Accusative	diaphorēsim diaphorēsin diaphorēsem1	diaphorēsēs diaphorēsīs
Ablative	diaphorēsī diaphorēse1	diaphorēsibus
Vocative	diaphorēsis diaphorēsi	diaphorēsēs diaphorēseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• → English: diaphoresis