hidero-, hider-, hidro-, hidr-, -hidrosis, -hidrotic +

(Greek: sweat, sweating, perspire, perspiration; sweat gland)


acrohyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) of the hands and feet.
anhidrosis
1. Absence of sweat.
2. Not sweating.
3. The deficiency or absence of perspiration.

For some people, the inability to sweat may seem a blessing; but it is not, since to sweat makes it possible for us to stay cooler. Anhidrosis creates a dangerous inability to tolerate heat.

anhidrosis, anidrosis
1. Absence of sweat.
2. Not sweating.
3. The deficiency or absence of perspiration.
4. Absence of sweating in horses, a condition more noticeable in hot climates; affected animals develop severe dyspnea and cannot work.
5. Absence or deficiency of sweating; in humans this is usually due to absence or paralysis of the sweat glands or to some kind of obstruction of the sweat ducts.

For some people, the inability to sweat may seem a blessing; but it is not, since to sweat makes it possible for us to stay cooler. Anhidrosis creates a dangerous inability to tolerate heat.

anhidrotic
1. An agent that reduces, prevents, or stops sweating.
2. Denoting a reduction or absence of sweat glands, characteristic of congenital ectodermal defect and anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
antihidrotic, anhidrotic
1. Acting to reduce or to prevent sweating; antiperspirant.
2. An agent having an inhibitory action upon the secretion of sweat.
bromhidrosis, bromidrosis
1. Sweat that is fetid or offensive due to bacterial decomposition. It occurs mostly on the feet, in the groin, and under the arms.
2. Also called kakidrosis, cacidrosis, fetid sweat, fetid perspiration, osmidrosis, ozochrotia.

Bromhidrosis, or body odor, is caused by bacteria growing on the body. These bacteria multiply considerably in the presence of sweat, but sweat itself is almost totally odorless. Body odor is associated with the hair, feet, crotch (upper medial thigh), anus, skin in general, breasts, armpits, genitals, and pubic hair.

bromohyperhidrosis
Profuse bromhidrosis. Also known as, bromohyperidrosis.
cacidrosis
Foul smelling sweat; also known as, bromidrosis, bromhidrosis.
chromhidrosis, chromidrosis
1. The production of colored sweat.
2. Sweat that has a color.
cyanephidrosis
The excretion of sweat with a blue tint.
cyanidrosis
Blue sweat.
dyshidria
1. Any disturbance in sweat production or excretion.
2. A recurrent vesicular eruption on the skin of the hands and feet marked by intense itching.
dyshidrosis (s), dyshidroses (pl); dyshydrosis, dysidrosis
1. A disorder of the sweating apparatus.
2. Any disturbance in sweat production or sweat excretion.
3. A disease of the sweat-glands, in which the sweat is retained (instead of perspiring) and produces swellings.
ephidrosis
Profuse perspiration.
hemathidrosis, haemathidrosis; hematidrosis, haematidrosis
A very rare disorder in which the patient sweats blood and/or blood pigments.

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