(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.
Sweat
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sweat
(v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
(v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
(v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
(v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
(v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
(v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
(v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
(v. i.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
(v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
(v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
(v. i.) The sweating sickness.
(v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
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.