diaphoresis

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Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (diaphórēsis, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); equivalent to dia- (“through, across”) +‎ -phoresis (“transmission”).

diaphoresis (countable and uncountable, plural diaphoreses)

(physiology, medicine) The formation and excretion of sweat; sweating; perspiration; and (sometimes, more particularly):
1. (physiology, medicine) Excessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
  - 1865, William J. Cummins, “Remarks on Scarlatina”, in The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science‎, volume 39, number 1, page 14:
    The train of symptoms which mark the typhoid variety of scarlatina generally begin to decline about the tenth or twelfth day, when the case often lapses into a condition similar to rheumatic fever, without its characteristic diaphoreses.

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (diaphórēsis, “evaporation, dissipation”), from δῐᾰφορέω (diaphoréō, “to dissipate by evaporation or perspiration”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, action noun suffix).

diaphorēsis f (genitive diaphorēsis or diaphorēseōs or diaphorēsios); third declension (Late Latin)

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diaphorēsis	diaphorēsēs diaphorēseis
Genitive	diaphorēsis diaphorēseōs diaphorēsios	diaphorēsium
Dative	diaphorēsī	diaphorēsibus
Accusative	diaphorēsim diaphorēsin diaphorēsem¹	diaphorēsēs diaphorēsīs
Ablative	diaphorēsī diaphorēse¹	diaphorēsibus
Vocative	diaphorēsis diaphorēsi	diaphorēsēs diaphorēseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.