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What (who) is Diaphoretic - definition

SUBSTANCE SECRETED BY SWEAT GLAND
Sweat; Diaphoresis; Diaphoretic; Persperation; Perspire; Sudorific; Diaphoretics; Sweating; Sudation; Dipahoresis; Sweaty; Hidromeiosis; Human sweat; 💦; 😓; Flop sweat; Sweatiness; Perspired
  • A man in a sweat-drenched shirt, after some physical exertion.
  • The evaporation of sweat on the skin cools the body.
  • Beads of sweat emerging from [[eccrine gland]]s

Diaphoretic         
·noun A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.
II. Diaphoretic ·adj ·Alt. of Diaphoretical.
diaphoretic         
[?d???f?'r?t?k]
¦ adjective Medicine (chiefly of a drug) inducing perspiration.
?(of a person) sweating heavily.
Derivatives
diaphoresis noun
Origin
ME: via late L. from Gk diaphoretikos, from diaphorein 'sweat out'.
perspire         
v. to perspire profusely

Wikipedia

Perspiration

Perspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. The apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic odor from bacterial decomposition.

In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation, which is achieved by the water-rich secretion of the eccrine glands. Maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2–4 liters per hour or 10–14 liters per day (10–15 g/min·m2), but is less in children prior to puberty. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to evaporative cooling. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.

Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few (exceptions include humans and horses) produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down.