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Sweating
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.
Sweating Sickness
A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.
Year introduced: 1995
Sweating, Gustatory
An autonomic disorder characterized by excessive sweating of the forehead, upper lip, perioral region, or sternum subsequent to gustatory stimuli. The auriculotemporal syndrome features facial flushing or sweating limited to the distribution of the auriculotemporal nerve and may develop after trauma to the parotid gland, in association with PAROTID NEOPLASMS, or following their surgical removal. (From Ann Neurol 1997 Dec;42(6):973-5)
Year introduced: 1974
Crisponi syndrome [Supplementary Concept]
Muscle contractions, tetanoform, with characteristic face, camptodactyly, hyperthermia, and sudden death CISS1: mutation in CRLF1; CISS2: mutation in CLCF1
Date introduced: August 25, 2010
Harlequin syndrome [Supplementary Concept]
A condition characterized by flushing and sweating restricted to one side of the chest, neck, or face in the absence of stimuli or in response to heat or exercise. It may be caused by injury of sympathetic neurons in the CILIARY GANGLION.