(1) Sympathetic excitement is not rarely accompanied by sweating over the palm or sole, and this sudatory reaction is often depressed by atropine.
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).