Something that prevents or reduces sweating by inhibiting sweat gland activity.
From anti- (against) + sudorific (causing sweat), from Latin sudor (sweat) + -fic (making). This longer form emphasizes opposition to things that cause sweating, developed alongside antisudoral in medical terminology.
While 'sudorific' drugs intentionally make you sweat to treat fevers, antisudorific ones do the opposite—but doctors rarely use them because suppressing sweat entirely is actually dangerous to your body's temperature control.
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