What's the difference between perspiration and transpiration?

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.

Transpiration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.
  • (n.) The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.
  • (n.) The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It transpired that in 65% of the analysed advertisements explicit or implicit claims were made.
  • (2) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
  • (3) The major change in attitude involved the realization that the density- and frequency-independent selection discussed by most population geneticists has little bearing on events transpiring within natural populations; instead, natural selection should be viewed primarily as a density- and frequency-dependent phenomenon.
  • (4) the weight difference between produced CO2 and consumed O2, water loss through the lungs and transpiration through the skin.
  • (5) However, it later transpired that she had done a reading for Dowling two years earlier.
  • (6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (7) "I and the [enquiry] panel were surprised that the level of preparation, for a weather event that was off the radar, was not much better than transpired," he said.
  • (8) Moreover pain transpire very quickly and does not always last very long.
  • (9) But now it transpires that getting bombed by fighter jets in your own home is not part of anybody’s culture.
  • (10) It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
  • (11) Since transpiration rate variations should theoretically affect only the rate and not the extent of leaf H2(18O) fractionation, the respective time courses for water-stressed and control leaf H2(18O) accumulations were compared.
  • (12) It transpired that 45% of the child population had encountered varicella at preschool age and another 45% during the attendance of school.
  • (13) It transpires that this bizarre and unnecessary connecting of the strike to terrorism (made within a week of the Paris attacks) was approved by Jeremy Hunt’s office.
  • (14) when it transpires that one of the channel's hot new stars will be Lebedev himself.
  • (15) It transpired that she had visited Butler 190 times, including during court proceedings.
  • (16) Miles Carroll, a virologist and head of research at Public Health England’s national infection service, who is conducting a separate study on survivors in Guinea, said it may yet transpire that samples with the higher levels of neutralising antibody were more effective.
  • (17) Sinopec has filed a motion to dismiss Sun’s claim, challenging the US as the appropriate jurisdiction for the suit – it suggests China is the appropriate place for the hearing – adding that even if actions had transpired as Sun claimed, it would not amount to what he suggested.
  • (18) Approved memories can be purchased in the gift shop.” But it transpires that the draconian rule, which was first introduced for the blockbusting David Bowie exhibition in 2013, has nothing to do with protecting intellectual property.
  • (19) But now it transpires that foreign nationals have heard about our generous system (which dates back to the Magna Carta in 1215 – or similar), and they want in.
  • (20) It later transpired – through documents that were apparently leaked to the press with Jobs's approval – that he had a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.