Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Secreting sweat; producing perspiration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Same as
sudoriferous .
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- adjective
sudoriferous
Etymologies
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Examples
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The skin is thus exercised, as it were, and the sudoriparous and sebaceous glands are set at work.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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The answer is that in the instances mentioned there are glands (sudoriparous and salivary) which in the normal state emit a special liquid, and it is easy to understand that the imagination may bring about this secretion; but the nerves adjacent to the skin do not terminate in a gland emitting blood, and without such an organ they are powerless to produce the effects in question.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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They are parts of the skin, being nothing more or less than enormous enlargements of dermal glands, either sebaceous or sudoriparous.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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Even the erector pili muscle and the sudoriparous gland are often found.
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Even the erector pili muscle and the sudoriparous gland are often found.
whichbe commented on the word sudoriparous
Producing or secreting sweat. Also sudoriferous.
October 10, 2008