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Definition of Heat rash
1. Noun. Obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity.
Medical Definition of Heat rash
1. An eruption of papules and vesicles at the orifices of sweat glands, accompanied by redness and inflammatory reaction of the skin. Synonym: heat rash, lichen infantum, lichen strophulosus, prickly heat, strophulus, summer rash, tropical lichen, lichen tropicus, wildfire rash. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heat Rash
Literary usage of Heat rash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Infant Care by Max West (1921)
"heat rash. This rash may appear either in summer or in winter; it is associated
with unusual perspiration, or the irritation of wool next to a sensitive ..."
2. Journal of Materia Medica (1875)
"Obviously there must have been some connection between the heat-rash and cholera
infantum; and I believe them to have been complements of one and the same ..."
3. A Healthy Body: A Text-book on Physiology and Hygiene for Use in by Charles Henry Stowell (1906)
"heat rash, or prickly heat, affects the sweat glands of the skin. It is caused
by working in an over- ..."
4. Babyhood: Devoted Exclusively to the Care of Infants and Young Children (1891)
"Second—I found that when my baby wore the Canton flannel next to her body, her
chest, neck and arms were covered with heat rash during the hottest days. ..."
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