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perspiration

[pur-spuh-ray-shuhn] / ˈpɜr spəˈreɪ ʃən /


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"There are even some rather moving, rather touching details -- namely, its silk lining shows clear signs of perspiration," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Exposure to heat, with the perspiration that follows, eventually calls for hydration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

He begins “Hotwired” with an accessible tour through the biology and evolutionary history of perspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

The polygraph exam uses a device strapped to a subject’s body to measure physiological responses like heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration as the person answers yes-or-no questions.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

Even in the freezing December night, beads of perspiration rolled off Papa Will’s forehead.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

But with all this he was a total stranger to sleep; he burst out into immoderate perspirations; and there was scarcely any thing that remained of him, but skin and bone.

From Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin

In some people the very first passing of a catheter sets up a local and constitutional disturbance, the bladder being rendered irritable and intolerant, the temperature going up, and shiverings and perspirations manifesting themselves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

If there are weakening perspirations, atropin should be given, especially as it is also a circulatory stimulant.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

Of bad omen are intense hectic fever, incessant cough with abundant nummular sputa, copious perspirations, diarrhoea, breathing growing shorter and shorter, and extreme emaciation and debility.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

His lordship was in the garden, where Woodward found him in hobnailed shoes, digging himself into what he called his daily perspirations.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton




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