perspiration
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"There are even some rather moving, rather touching details -- namely, its silk lining shows clear signs of perspiration," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
He begins “Hotwired” with an accessible tour through the biology and evolutionary history of perspiration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
When she hits, she’s hilarious: An extended bit about leaving a puddle of her perspiration on a piece of gym equipment involves James Cameron developing a submersible to get to the bottom of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
The polygraph exam uses a device strapped to a subject’s body to measure physiological responses like heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration as the person answers yes-or-no questions.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
The perspiration was running down her cheeks when she was done, but she was able to tell him that he would get well and return to lead their pack.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
Until this period, abundant local perspirations in the day-time, less abundant, but more general ones in the night, were observable.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
As the disease advances, the countenance becomes very pale, and the flesh wastes, and profuse night perspirations, great debility, swelling of the ankles, and nervousness ensue.
From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull
She had that tenderness for his melancholy fate, that his great red countenance used to break out into cold perspirations when she looked at him.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
In some people the very first passing of a catheter sets up a local and constitutional disturbance, the bladder being rendered irritable and intolerant, the temperature going up, and shiverings and perspirations manifesting themselves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
In phthisis pulmonalis, at a late stage, colliquative diarrhoea, like colliquative perspirations, shows the breaking up of the system by excessive waste.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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