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8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
originFrom New Latin hīdrōsis, from Ancient Greek ῑ̔δρώς (hīdrṓs, “sweat”) + -ωσῐς (-ōsĭs); also synchronically held to end in the suffix -osis.
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