Lexic.us

Definition of Hyperidrosis

1. Noun. Excessive and profuse perspiration.

Medical Definition of Hyperidrosis

1. Excessive perspiration. Also called hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis and polyidrosis. Origin: Gr. Hidrosis = sweating This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperidrosis

Literary usage of Hyperidrosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"Dr. Federico Zavaleta, of Buenos Aires, describes a case of general hyperidrosis occurring in a man of a lymphatic-nervous temperament whose circulatory, ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1911)
"hyperidrosis is excessive sweating independent of the usual phy=i<v logical causes. ... The forms of hyperidrosis which we have to consider are so-called ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"Dr. Federico Zavaleta, of Buenos Aires, describes a case of general hyperidrosis occurring in a man of a lymphatic-nervous temperament whose circulatory, ..."

4. A Compend of the practice of medicine by Daniel E. Hughes (1906)
"Local hyperidrosis occurs most commonly upon the palms, soles, axillae, ... hyperidrosis of the palms may be so profuse that the fluid accumulates and keeps ..."

5. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1909)
"hyperidrosis is a functional disorder of the swe ized by increased sweating. ... hyperidrosis may be either acute be general, in which the entire body is ..."

6. Diseases of the skin and the eruptive fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1911)
"hyperidrosis is a functional disorder of the sweat-glands characterized by an ... hyperidrosis may be generalized or localized; it may likewise be in some ..."

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