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diaphoresis
 
SYLLABICATION:di·a·pho·re·sis
PRONUNCIATION:  d-f-rss, d-f-
NOUN: Perspiration, especially when copious and medically induced.
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin diaphorsis, from Greek, from diaphorein, to disperse : dia-, dia- + phorein, to convey, frequentative of pherein, to carry; see bher-1 in Appendix I.
 
 
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