| insensible perspiration | Perspiration that evaporates before it is perceived as moisture on the skin; the term sometimes includes evaporation from the lungs. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| perspiration | Sweating, the functional secretion of sweat. Origin: L. Perspirare = to breathe through (18 Nov 1997) |
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| sensible perspiration | The perspiration excreted in large quantity, or when there is much humidity in the atmosphere, so that it appears as moisture on the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| water loss, insensible | Loss of water by diffusion through the skin and by evaporation from the respiratory tract. It is so called because we do not know that we are actually losing water at the time that it is leaving the body. (guyton, textbook of medical physiology, 8th ed, p274) (12 Dec 1998) |
| insensible | Synonym: unconscious. 2. Not appreciable by the senses. Origin: L. In-sensibilis, fr. In, neg. + sentio, pp. Sensus, to feel (05 Mar 2000) |
| insensible thirst | A physiologic condition, perhaps caused by hypertonicity of body fluids, insufficient to initiate drinking but at times sufficient to sustain drinking when started; loosely, oligodipsia. Synonym: insensible thirst, subliminal thirst. Origin: hypo-+ G. Dipsa, thirst (05 Mar 2000) |