See Also: sudoresis(medicine)
sudoresis(dictionary)

a-(8) (iou) and sudoresis (iou)


a-(8) (iou)



a- prefix10.
Repr. Greek a- used before a consonant for an- without, not (see AN-5), as abyss, apetalous. A productive prefix of negation and privation with words of Greek and also Latin origin, as agnostic, amoral.

sudoresis (iou)



sudoresis noun. Now rare. M19.
[mod. Latin, from Latin sudor sweat + -esis as in DIAPHORESIS.]
Sweating, diaphoresis; spec. in Medicine, profuse sweating.