单词 | prickly heat |
释义 | prickly heatn. An itchy or prickly skin eruption consisting of small vesicles or papules at the openings of sweat glands, occurring in very hot weather or climates (a kind of miliaria). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > lichen lichen1657 prickly heat1740 lichen simplex1798 lichen simplex chronicus1798 summer rash1798 nettle-lichen1822 blight1864 lichen planus1866 1740 Extract Rev. John Wesley's Jrnl. Georgia 24 I found, she had only The Prickly Heat, a sort of Rash very common here in Summer. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. 531 Most Europeans, on first coming within the Tropics, are affected with an eruption upon their skins of small red pimples, which goes by the name of the prickly heat. 1862 C. Grant Anglo-Ind. Domestic Life 115 To the discomfitures of confinement, may possibly be added, during the hot weather, the temper-trying annoyances of boils.., or of the prickly heat. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvii. 559. Prickly heat, or, as it is sometimes called, lichen tropicus, is a form of miliaria (not of lichen) connected with the excessive sweating incident to the heat of tropical climates. 1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions (new ed.) v. 32 An affliction known as ‘prickly heat’, beside which chastisement with scorpions is futile and ineffectual. 1994 Healthwatch Mag. Summer 31/2 When the output of sweat is greater than the body can handle, it may break out under the surface of the skin and cause prickly heat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasprickly heat b. prickly heat: a skin disease common in hot climates ( Lichen tropicus), characterized by minute papulæ formed by the hyperæmia of the sweat follicles. ΚΠ 1736 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 37 She had only the prickly heat, a sort of rash, very common here in summer. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Lichen Tropicus..Prickly Heat, the pimples are bright red..with heat, itching, and pricking as if by needles. < n.1740 as lemmas |
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