Hidrosis
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Definition of Hidrosis
Noun
- The formation and excretion of sweat.
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- Excessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
"<!--"hidrosis" is a member of a smallish class of words (either adjectives or nouns) where "X" not only has a sense that is hypernymous to "hyper-X" but also has another sense that is synonymous with "hyper-X" (via polysemic imprecision); most such [[autohyponym]]ous pairs are "X-emia and hyper-X-emia" or "X-emic and hyper-X-emic" pairs, such as [[glycemia]] and [[hyperglycemia]], [[chloremia]]/-ic and [[hyperchloremia]]/-ic, and so on-->"