sudatory

• Sustantivo que designa un medicamento que induce la sudoración, o un lugar, como un baño o sauna, destinado a baños de vapor o aire caliente.

A noun referring to a medicine that induces sweating, or a facility such as a bathhouse designed for hot air or steam baths.

1. Sweat-inducing medicineC2formalmedical

   A medicinal substance or agent that promotes or increases perspiration.

   medicamento sudorífico

   • The physician prescribed a sudatory to help reduce the fever.
   • Herbal sudatories were commonly used in ancient medicine.
   • The patient was given a mild sudatory to induce sweating.

   Sinónimosdiaphoreticsudorific

2. Steam bath or hot air bathC2formal

   A room or establishment designed for hot air baths or steam baths, intended to induce sweating.

   Baño de vapor o baño de aire caliente

   • The Romans built elaborate sudatories as part of their bath complexes.
   • He visited the sudatory for its therapeutic heat treatments.
   • The sudatory was filled with fragrant steam from heated herbs.

   Sinónimossaunasteam bathturkish bath