miliaria

American  

[mil-ee-air-ee-uh] / ˌmɪl iˈɛər i ə /

noun

Pathology.

1. an inflammatory disease of the skin, located about the sweat glands, marked by the formation of vesicles or papules resembling millet seeds; prickly heat.

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miliaria British  

/ ˌmɪlɪˈɛərɪə /

noun

1. Nontechnical names: heat rash, prickly heat. an acute itching eruption of the skin, caused by blockage of the sweat glands

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Etymology

Origin of miliaria

1700–10; < New Latin miliāria, Latin: feminine of miliārius miliary

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Example Sentences

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miliaria

Conditions favoring a persistent miliaria have also a causative influence, especially observed in infants and young children.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

You may depend on it that the bunting, Emberiza miliaria, does not leave this county in the winter. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White

It has been observed in the later stages of phthisis, in miliaria, and in those who have eaten of putrid fish.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

The latter, or miliaria inirritata, was attended with great arterial debility; and during the course of the fever pellucid points appeared within the skin, particularly on the soft parts of the fingers.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

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