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Princeton's WordNet

  1. perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosisnoun

    the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid

    "perspiration is a homeostatic process"

Wiktionary

  1. sweatingnoun

    the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

  2. sweatingadjective

    of or relating to one who is sweating

Wikipedia

  1. sweating

    Perspiration, also known as sweating, is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. The apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic odor from bacterial decomposition. In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation, which is achieved by the water-rich secretion of the eccrine glands. Maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2–4 liters per hour or 10–14 liters per day (10–15 g/min·m2), but is less in children prior to puberty. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to evaporative cooling. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx. Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few (exceptions include humans and horses) produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down.

ChatGPT

  1. sweating

    Sweating is the release of a transparent, salty liquid from a person's sweat glands, normally in response to heat, physical exertion, stress, or illness. Its primary function is to control body temperature by promoting heat loss through evaporation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sweating

    of Sweat

  2. Sweating

    a. & n. from Sweat, v

Wikidata

  1. Sweating

    Perspiration is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: Eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body. In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation which is achieved by the water-rich secretion of the eccrine glands. Maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2-4 liters per hour or 10-14 liters per day Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the evaporation of water. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx. Primates and horses have armpits that sweat like those of humans. Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few, such as humans and horses, produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down. A study has discovered that men, on average, start perspiring much more quickly than women, then twice as much when they are in the middle of exercising at the same relative intensity. When men and women exercise at the same absolute intensity there are no differences in sweating responses.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Sweating

    The process of exocrine secretion of the SWEAT GLANDS, including the aqueous sweat from the ECCRINE GLANDS and the complex viscous fluids of the APOCRINE GLANDS.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Sweating

    A word used in the original Biblical sense, and applied to the unhealthy conditions which obtain among the denizens of the East End of London, specifically the Jewish tailors, numbers of whom work together in the fœtid atmosphere of a single small room.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sweating in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sweating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sweating in a Sentence

  1. Corey Slovis:

    We normally get rid of excess body heat by sweating and we evaporate and we lose heat via evaporation.

  2. Marchello Faulkner:

    I did a messed up move by laying him down because he kept saying, 'I'm fixing to die, I'm fixing to die,' he started sweating even more. His body and face started turning purple and the man lost his bowels, then his eyes go in back of his head (and) he stopped breathing.

  3. Christopher Ransom:

    There are not that many medical conditions that produce transient, recurrent, and highly-stereotyped neurological symptoms and epileptic seizures top that list of diagnoses to consider, this case, however, produced a particular challenge because [ the ] patient initially only described the cyclical pattern of sweating, not neurological symptoms. It wasn't until a spell was directly observed that alterations of behavior, seen as slowed verbal responses, was recognized to accompany the episodes of intense sweating.

  4. Jon Stewart:

    So ain't this a bitch ? america's heroes, who fought our wars, outside sweating their asses off, with oxygen battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherf *** ers sit in the air conditioning walled off from any of it ? They don't have to hear it. They don't have to see it. They don't have to understand that these are human beings. Did you get it yet ?

  5. Rafael Nadal:

    For me I was suffering a lot physically today, i was sweating a lot and lost my energy.

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