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Prickly heat   /prˈɪkli hit/   Listen
Prickly heat

noun
1.
Obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity.  Synonyms: heat rash, miliaria.






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"Prickly heat" Quotes from Famous Books



... bunk. Such a trivial incident—something like it happening every week to everybody—and to-day that boy, but for the Grace of God, might be reading the leaders of the Morning Post as the sole relief to a congested mind, going every week to the cartoon of Punch as to barley water for chronic prickly heat, and talking of dealing with the heterodox as the Holy Office used to deal with unbaptized Indian babies for the good of ...
— Waiting for Daylight • Henry Major Tomlinson



Words linked to "Prickly heat" :   heat rash, roseola, miliaria, efflorescence, rash, skin rash



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