What's the difference between diaphoresis and perspiration?

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.

Perspiration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of perspiring.
  • (n.) That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the postulated personality for PD may predispose to hard work, perspiration, and increased exposure to putative trace elements in the water supply.
  • (2) Results obtained using all the inhibition methods on secretor saliva, semen, urine, urine stain, and perspiration stain specimens show that the new technique is especially powerful in correctly determining the ABH antigens in secretor body fluids having lower concentrations of soluble blood group antigens.
  • (3) Compared with visualization methods for perspiration fingerprints, this method recovers better images for a longer time after the fingerprint has been deposited on skin.
  • (4) Using newly developed equipment for continuous recording of local perspiration volume, we have tried to standardize the measurement of perspiration volume and evaluate it.
  • (5) The perspiration samples were collected under normal physiological conditions for 8 h after medication and urine samples were collected 8 h after medication.
  • (6) All the patients referred fever and local pain, with functional impotence in 26 (93%), general involvement, shivering and perspiration in 24 (86%).
  • (7) The voracious hunger and profuse perspiration were reduced, the patient's serum lipids became normal, her blood glucose fell, and her sensitivity to exogenous insulin increased.
  • (8) The losses included Ca and Na in exfoliated skin cells as well as in insensible perspiration.
  • (9) Other clinical improvements, such as diminution or complete disappearance of swelling of soft tissues, excessive perspiration, and headache, were observed in 7 of 8 patients.
  • (10) Of the 33 symptom complex patients, 5 had Atropine, most of whose heart rates returned to normal after 2 seconds to 2 minutes, as did their dizziness, perspiration, and ashen coloring.
  • (11) The cutaneous insensible perspiration of adult healthy volunteers was measured by a new method based on estimation of the vapour pressure gradient in the air layer immediately adjacent to skin.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) Lawyers in the court blew on their perspiring hands as the magistrate read the arguments.
  • (14) Attention is called to the similarity of the clinical manifestations with its onset in the first year of life, deficient body weight and growth, progressing neurological disturbances (weakening of muscle power, tremor, ataxia, nystagmus), course with periods of exacerbations, tachypnoea, skin changes (hirsutism, telangiectasia, perspiration), death at the age of 2-3 years.
  • (15) Cetirizine inhibited all the specific skin modifications induced by histamine challenge, wheals, flares and increased thickness, without affecting the methacholine-induced perspiration.
  • (16) It is shown that the water flow density through SC controlling the evaporation rate from the skin surface in the process of insensible perspiration depends upon the skin capillary pressure.
  • (17) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
  • (18) One subject displayed a remarkable increase in perspiration on the sole of the foot together with a great increase in SSA.
  • (19) A chunky piece of ugly technology, the sobriety bracelet is used to detect even a smidgen of alcohol in the perspiration of its wearer, from whom readings are sent twice a day in order to monitor their abstinence.
  • (20) A method is described for determining the concentration of volatile substances that are excreted through the skin via insensible perspiration.

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