What's the difference between diaphoresis and sweating?

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.

Sweating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweat
  • () a. & n. from Sweat, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
  • (2) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
  • (3) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
  • (4) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
  • (5) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (6) Further vegetative signs are impotence and a loss of thermoregulatoric sweat.
  • (7) These were followed by malignant melanomas (12 cases), carcinomas of the parotid gland (6 cases), oropharyngeal region (3 cases), adrenal medulla (2 cases) and stomach, liver, breast and cutaneous sweat gland (one case each).
  • (8) Pralidoxime was shown to decrease whole body sweating, by a mechanism as yet unexplained.
  • (9) She slept in the hall, covered in a duvet, and by the time her cleaner arrived the next day, she was sweating, vomiting repeatedly and shaking.
  • (10) No or only a slight increase in sweating activity was observed following the acclimation procedures with face fanning, whereas similar procedures without face fanning had resulted in substantial enhancement of sweating activity in most of the cases, which had been attributed mainly to adaptive changes in central sudomotor activity (as indicated by a shift of the regression line relating Fsw to Tb).
  • (11) Parliament embarks on two years of legislative Brexit blood, sweat and tears.
  • (12) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
  • (13) She also complained of occasional night sweats, a 6-pound weight loss, vaginal discharge, and a low-grade fever for 6 weeks prior to admission.
  • (14) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
  • (15) Primary mucinous carcinoma is a rare sweat-gland neoplasm of the skin with a tendency to grow slowly.
  • (16) In 13 postorchidectomy patients who reported hot flushes we recorded cutaneous blood-flow and sweating by use of a laser-Doppler flowmeter and an evaporimeter.
  • (17) All animals broke out in a sweat shortly after iv injection, but basal body temperature was not affected.
  • (18) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
  • (19) The classic symptoms and signs of tuberculosis were noted in a significantly higher proportion of the younger group: fever (62 percent versus 31 percent), weight loss (76 percent versus 34 percent), night sweats (48 percent versus 6 percent), sputum production (76 percent versus 48 percent), and hemoptysis (40 percent versus 17 percent) (p less than 0.05).
  • (20) Papillary hidradenoma of the vulva is a rare, benign neoplasm arising from apocrine sweat glands of the skin.

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