Integumentary
hyperhidrosis
hy-per-hy-DROH-sis
StatusNew
Definition
Excessive sweating
PathologyIntegumentary
Breakdown
Prefix
hyper-
excessive
Root
hidr/o
sweat
Suffix
-osis
condition
Etymology
Greek: hyper- (excessive) + hidr/o (sweat) + -osis (condition)
Practice
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