dĭăphŏrēsis, is, f., = διαφόρησις, in the later medic. lang.,
I A sweat , Theod. Prisc. de Diaeta, 14.—
II Meton., an exhaustion , Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 15.
·noun Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration. ...
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