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night sweats

occurrence of excessive sweating during sleep
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Summary

night sweats is a symptom or sign[1]. It draws 1,889 Wikipedia views per month (symptom or sign category, ranking #101 of 200).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: clinical sign[3], hyperhidrosis[4], sleep disturbance[5]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C3279[6]
  • Health specialty: infectious diseases[7]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000337[8]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/night_sweats[9]

Why It Matters

night sweats has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

infectious diseases

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). night sweats. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/night-sweats
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_night-sweats_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{night sweats}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/night-sweats}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-20}}
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  1. 3d ago · ACorrêa (WMB) · 2026-10-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hy', 'id', 'ja', 'pt', 'sl']
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → —
    Human phenotype ontology id → HP:0030166
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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