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

Example Sentences

In the former of these, or miliaria irritata, the eruptions were distinct and larger than the small-pox, and the fever was not subdued without two or three venesections, and repeated cathartics with calomel.

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

Audiebantur tamen clamores per quatuor fere miliaria horribiles, auxilium postulantes.

From Poems, 1799 by Southey, Robert

This, which maybe called miliaria sudatoria, has been confounded with other miliary fevers, and has made the existence of the latter doubted.

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

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 Morley, Henry

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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman