(n.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) While awaiting discharge, the patient, although asymptomatic, was observed to be very profusely diaphoretic above the level of his cord lesion.
(2) Clonidine therapy was associated with an initial dramatic decrease in the frequency of diaphoretic episodes as well as with a fall in NE release rate and increases in NE clearance and volume of distribution.
(3) The patient, after receiving glucagon 0.5 mg iv and a small amount of rectally administered barium sulfate, experienced an "itchy tingling" feeling, vomited, became diaphoretic, and had a cardiopulmonary arrest.
(4) The diaphoretic function was also promoted by DGZT in mice infected with influenza virus which the function was gradually suppressed.
(5) Native peoples of Amazonia treasured plants containing pilocarpine as panaceas because of their impressive diaphoretic effect.
(6) The two diaphoretic activities were (1) strenuous exercise, including periodic visits to the sauna, and (2) passive activity consisting of repetitive visits to the sauna.
(7) Although patients with hypoglycemia who respond to D50W are diaphoretic and have an available history of diabetes more often than other patients with prehospital AMS, 25% of complete responders who are hypoglycemic would not receive D50W if it were used only in patients with "typical" clinical findings.
(8) Within 2 min she became pale and diaphoretic and soon after lost consciousness.
(9) AMI patients with normal or nonspecific initial ECGs (n = 107) were less likely to have a past history of coronary artery disease or to be diaphoretic on presentation (p less than 0.01) than AMI patients with initial ECGs highly suggestive of AMI (n = 811).
(10) Prior to this time the treatment of phlogistic pathologies was aimed at achieving analgesic, antipyretic and diaphoretic effects.
(11) She immediately became agitated, tachycardic, and diaphoretic; a clinical diagnosis of acute pulmonary edema was made.
Sudorific
Definition:
(a.) Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.
(n.) A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The range of measurements on the dry skin of newborn infants was similar for full-term infants with reactive sweat glands and for premature infants who failed to show sweating responsiveness to natural reflex stimulation as well as local glandular stimulation with sudorific drugs.
(2) Examination of sudorific function, therefore, is a useful aid in making a diagnosis of severed peripheral nerve and also provides valuable information on nerve function in the recovery stage following injury and surgery such as neurorrhaphy.
(3) In addition, several gender-related differences were found in the sudorific response of men and women.
(4) The sudorific effects of a submaximal concentration of VIP (6 X 10(-9) M) and that of methacholine (MCh) (10(-8) M) were only additive.
(5) Perfused skin was observed to sweat in response to administration of sudorific drugs, and some features of the patterns of sweating were similar to those which could be induced by heating or by drugs in conscious animals.
(6) Skin potential level has two mechanisms of generation: that due to sweat gland activity (sudorific) and that due to other causes (nonsudorific).