A medical condition where sweat has an acidic quality or smells unusually sour.
From Greek kakos (bad) + hidrosis (sweating). The Greek roots were combined in medical terminology during the 19th century to describe pathological sweat conditions.
This wonderfully obscure medical term shows how doctors created precision language by combining Greek roots—if someone's sweat smells acidic, they have a specific Greek-labeled problem rather than just 'weird sweat.'
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