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... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Physical Examination > Vital Signs > Body Temperature > Body Temperature Regulation > Sweating
Physiological Phenomena > Body Temperature > Body Temperature Regulation > Sweating
Physiological Phenomena > Adaptation, Physiological > Body Temperature Regulation > Sweating
Biological Phenomena > Adaptation, Biological > Adaptation, Physiological > Body Temperature Regulation > Sweating
Physiological Phenomena > Homeostasis > Body Temperature Regulation > Sweating
Integumentary System Physiological Phenomena > Skin Physiological Phenomena > Sweating

Preferred term

Sweating  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • do not confuse with CUTANEOUS ELIMINATION; PRICKLY HEAT see MILIARIA is also available

Scope note

  • 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.

In other languages

  • hikoilu

    Finnish

  • hidrosis
  • hikoileminen
  • idrosis
  • perspiraatio
  • perspiratio
  • transpiratio
  • Svettning

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013546

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