perspiration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=spi=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

perspiration, n. [Cf. F. perspiration.].

•  The act or process of perspiring.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.  [1913 Webster]

  " A man of average weight throws off through the skin during 24 hours about 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic acid gas. Ordinarily, this constant exhalation is not apparent, and the excretion is then termed insensible perspiration."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

perspiration, n.
1 = SWEAT.
2 sweating.

Derivative

perspiratory adj.

Etymology

F (as PERSPIRE)

THESAURUS

perspiration

BO, beaded brow, beads of sweat, body odor, cold sweat, dampness, diaphoresis, exudate, exudation, honest sweat, lather, perspiration odor, streams of sweat, sudor, sudoresis, sweat, sweating, swelter, water, wetness

ROGET THESAURUS

perspiration

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

Excretion

N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.