diaphoretic

How To Use diaphoretic In A Sentence

• How are these different from the pharmaceutical classification of substances as diaphoretics, laxatives, alteratives, stimulants, sedatives, nervines, emmenagogues, carminatives, etc.?
• Initial examination showed labile hypertension and epigastric tenderness, but the patient soon became pale, diaphoretic, and dyspneic.
• Herbs with a floating energy have diaphoretic properties and are used for the initial stages of colds, flus, fevers and eruptive skin diseases.
• Ginger is a known diaphoretic, meaning it causes one to sweat. The Christmas Cookie Club
• He's actually very funny, but he has a clinical bent that makes him say, "I was febrile and diaphoretic," instead of "I was hot and sweaty. A Conversation with Elinor Lipman
• Diaphoretics are medicines that promote or cause perspirable discharge by the skin. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration, the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat.
• Patients with systemic infection may be diaphoretic, febrile, and tachycardic, and they may manifest toxic delirium.
• It is an anti-inflammatory, tonic astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, nervine, anodyne and antiseptic.
• In the emergency department, the patient was agitated, diaphoretic, and in extreme respiratory distress.