diaphoresis

Questions about diaphoresis

What does diaphoresis mean?

diaphoresis means "the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid".

How many syllables are in diaphoresis?

diaphoresis has 5 syllables and divides as di-a-pho-re-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for diaphoresis?

Close synonyms include perspiration, sweating, sudation, hidrosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diaphoresis a common word?

diaphoresis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.