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di·a·pho·re·sis

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NOUN:

Perspiration, especially when copious and medically induced.

ETYMOLOGY:
Late Latin diaphorsis, from Greek, from diaphorein, to disperse : dia-, dia- + phorein, to convey, frequentative of pherein, to carry; see bher-¹ in Indo-European roots

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