perspiration

"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

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

But perspiration is of course beneficial in a very basic way: it cools us down.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

Through the shutters of our balconies we watched her; perspiration had already left black moons beneath her armpits.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

I have tried walking nine miles a day, thus getting up free perspirations.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William

She had considerable rheumatic muscular pains in various parts, and constant profuse perspirations day and night.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

The heat which they maintain about the body is inconvenient and dangerous, predisposing to flooding and exhausting perspirations.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

Of bad omen are intense hectic fever, incessant cough with abundant nummular sputa, copious perspirations, diarrhoea, breathing growing shorter and shorter, and extreme emaciation and debility.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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 Dickens, Charles