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perspiration

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


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The sodium also gets trapped, leading to, for example, the salty perspiration on the brow of a baby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"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

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

The rider gazed at him, expressionless, and Con felt perspiration rising on his forehead.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

On inquiry, it was found that, for some weeks, he had been expectorating blood—he had nocturnal perspirations, hectic flushes, and almost incessant cough.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 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

Until this period, abundant local perspirations in the day-time, less abundant, but more general ones in the night, were observable.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

The heat which they maintain about the body is inconvenient and dangerous, predisposing to flooding and exhausting perspirations.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

She had that tenderness for his melancholy fate, that his great red countenance used to break out into cold perspirations when she looked at him.

From Hard Times by Charles Dickens


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