(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:03:33

Di`ap*no"ic (?), a. [Gr. outlet for the wind, exhalation, fr. to blow through; through + to blow, breathe: cf. F. diapnoique.] Med.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

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n.

A gentle diaphoretic.

 

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