单词 | sensible perspiration |
释义 | > as lemmassensible perspiration sensible perspiration n. [after post-classical Latin perspiratio sensibilis (1670 in the passage translated in quot. 1676)] sweat (as distinguished from water lost from the skin and lungs as vapour); cf. insensible adj. 1b. ΚΠ 1676 J. Davies tr. S. Santorio Medicina Statica i. 3 Insensible perspiration [L. perspiratio insensibilis] alone is commonly wont to exceed all the sensible perspirations [L. sensibiles] put together. 1849 S. G. Morton Illust. Syst. Human Anat. 156 When this halitus escapes in the state of simple vapor, it is called insensible perspiration; but when the amount becomes so profuse as to wet the skin, it is termed the sensible perspiration. 2010 J. L. Kee et al. Fluids & Electrolytes Clin. Applic. (ed. 8) i. 11 In a relatively comfortable temperature would insensible perspiration or sensible perspiration occur? < as lemmas |
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