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prickly heat A common name for Lichen tropicus, an inflammatory disorder of the sweat glands, prevalent in hot countries, characterized by eruption of small papules or vesicles, accompanied by a sense of pricking or burning.
1736Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 36, I found she had only the prickly heat, a sort of rash. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 10 Called the prickly heat, from the pungent feeling that attends it. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxvii. 559. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 586 ‘Prickly heat’ in which the papules are formed by the blocking of the mouths of the sweat-pores. |