What's the difference between diaphoresis and hidrosis?

Diaphoresis


Definition:

  • (n.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After ingesting 3,4-methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) and the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor phenelzine, a 50 year old male developed marked hypertension, diaphoresis, altered mental status, and hypertonicity lasting 5-6 hours.
  • (2) Approximately 75 minutes after ingestion of dipyridamole 300 mg suspension, the patient developed chest pain, hypotension, nausea, and diaphoresis.
  • (3) The importance of diaphoresis in the treatment of mercury poisoning as well as the status of the use of chelating agents are reviewed.
  • (4) Other symptoms included palpitations in 57% of patients, chest pain in 27%, dyspnea in 25%, weakness in 6%, nausea or diaphoresis in 3% each and flushing in 2%.
  • (5) When PGI2 is infused into healthy volunteers it reduces blood pressure only at infusion rates that also cause significant side-effects, primarily, nausea, emesis, flushing, diaphoresis, and restlessness.
  • (6) The authors present a case of a patient suffering from profuse diaphoresis as the sole manifestation of myocardial ischemia (syndrome x or coronary vasospasm).
  • (7) Coronary angiography may result in catheter tip occulsion of the ostium with chest pain, dyspnea, diaphoresis, systemic hypotension and abrupt fall in pressure at the catheter tip.
  • (8) Adverse drug experiences reported by subjects included nausea, dizziness, light-headedness, diaphoresis, costal pain, and perioral numbness.
  • (9) The most frequent clinical features are changes in mental status, restlessness, myoclonus, hyperreflexia, diaphoresis, shivering, and tremor.
  • (10) Serious adverse effects, including marked sedation, hallucinations, diaphoresis, and respiratory depression, were recorded in 14 patients.
  • (11) The anesthetic state was associated with tachypnea, tachycardia, increases in systemic blood pressure, mydriasis, diaphoresis, and at times, clonus and opisthotonus.
  • (12) Eleven (34%) of these cases were clinically unsuspected exhibiting none of the typical symptoms of palpitation, diaphoresis, or headache, and only five were hypertensive.
  • (13) Side effects such as hyperkinesias, vivid dreams, dizziness with diaphoresis were frequent.
  • (14) Symptoms were progressive with congestive failure, diaphoresis, syncope , and angina pectoris.
  • (15) The major changes in AWS were in blood pressure and pulse, while restlessness or diaphoresis did not show faster normalization with L vs. P. Other ratings of withdrawal intensities and craving by patients were similar in both P and L. There were no differences in the rate of patient completion, or appearance of hallucinations by group.
  • (16) All subjects developed significant hypoglycemia in response to the insulin and manifested signs of sympathetic activation, including increased heart rate, diaphoresis, and lightheadedness.
  • (17) Attention is drawn to the often rapid onset and short duration of illness (nearly two-thirds of the patients died within five months of onset) and the frequent early occurrence of symptoms such as asthenia, diaphoresis, and disturbances of sleep and appetite.
  • (18) A subject participating in a clinical trial employing antipyrine experienced an acute allergic reaction to the drug which was characterized by diaphoresis, flushing, swelling of the throat, difficulty in breathing, vomiting, swelling of the upper lip, and a diffuse urticarial rash.
  • (19) In the group of patients with lesions showing an ulcer, carcinoma or suspect malignancies, the changes occured in the composition of enzymes such as acid phosphatase, DNP Diaphoresis and nonspecific esterases.
  • (20) With the use of two distinct activities to produce diaphoresis, we were able to document substantial transient improvements in pure-tone threshold, speech-reception threshold, and speech discrimination concurrent with a decrease in tinnitus and fullness in two patients with unilateral Meniere's disease that had been diagnosed previously by the glycerin test.

Hidrosis


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results revealed: 1) The measurement of local perspiration volume with this equipment provides objective data useful for the diagnosis of hyperhidrosis and hypo-(or an-) hidrosis and for the judgement of its grade; 2) in case of palmar hyperhidrosis, mental stimuli most strongly induced perspiration; and 3) the responses to mental arithmetic or hand grasping and the base-line stable time are reliable parameters for measurement of perspiration volume.
  • (2) Hidrosis was observed on the right side of the body in response to heat.
  • (3) To objectively evaluate perspiration volume, we tried to measure the perspiration volume from 6 cases of hyperhidrosis and 4 cases of hypo-(or an-) hidrosis using recently developed equipment for continuous recording of local perspiration volume.
  • (4) From a discussion of the literature on atrichia, the forms without involvement of teeth, nails and hidrosis, among which recessive inheritance prevails, are distinguished from each other.