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prickly heat
noun
- a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prickly heat1
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Example Sentences
With a prickly heat suffusing my whole body and a melting sensation at the collar I struggled through the wretched lyric once.
Prickly heat produces more or less discomfort but usually little or no itching.
With solicitude he glanced down at the small, moist, pink, lumpy bundle of prickly heat and sore gums.
On Lucknow station platform he watched young De Castro, all covered with prickly-heat, get into a second-class compartment.
He was now in that unpleasant state of prickly heat when testy old gentlemen could commit slaughter with ecstasy.
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