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Perspiratory

Perspiratory \Per*spir"a*to*ry\, a. Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.

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perspiratory

a. (context dated English) Of or pertaining to perspiration.

Usage examples of "perspiratory".

If every one of your perspiratory ducts, which are a quarter of an inch long, was placed end to end, they would reach a distance of seven miles.

Later in the spring and summer, when the cheerful, perspiratory tourists flooded in, the lobby floor would be littered with tracked mud, cigar stubs, rumpled newspapers, and chewing-gum wrappers, wearily dealt with by insufficient bell-boys.

The emotions exert a remarkable influence upon the action of the perspiratory glands.

THE TREATMENT, in all the preceding varieties of dysmenorrhea, should consist of measures to determine the circulation of the blood to the surface, and increase the perspiratory functions.