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PRICKLY HEAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prickly heat mean?
• PRICKLY HEAT (noun)
The noun PRICKLY HEAT has 1 sense:
1. obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
Familiarity information: PRICKLY HEAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
heat rash; miliaria; prickly heat
Hypernyms ("prickly heat" is a kind of...):
efflorescence; rash; roseola; skin rash (any red eruption of the skin)
Context examples
Miliaria rubra, or prickly heat, results from apocrine duct obstruction.
(Miliaria, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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