Disease or Syndrome
hypohidrosis Audio
[ hahy-poh-hi-droh-sis, -hahy- ]
Subclass of:
Sweat Gland Diseases
Definitions related to hypohidrosis:
  • Abnormally diminished capacity to sweat.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • Abnormally diminished or absent perspiration. Both generalized and segmented (reduced or absent sweating in circumscribed locations) forms of the disease are usually associated with other underlying conditions.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Abnormally diminished sweating.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Reduced sweating. Causes include burns, dehydration, radiation, and leprosy.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A disorder characterized by reduced sweating.
    Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
    U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2021
  • Hypohidrosis is inadequate sweating. Hypohidrosis due to skin abnormalities is rarely clinically significant. It is most commonly focal and caused by local skin injury (eg, due to trauma, radiation, infection [eg, leprosy ], or inflammation) or by atrophy of glands resulting from connective tissue disease (eg, systemic sclerosis,...
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2025
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