prickly heat

noun

Definition of prickly heat

: a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples with intense itching and tingling caused by inflammation around the sweat ducts

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The girl was filthy, blistered by prickly heat and bitten by ants, her ankles chafed by chains attached to an iron stake. — Sam Roberts, New York Times, "June Robles Birt, Whose Abduction at 6 Gripped the Nation, Is Dead at 87," 31 Oct. 2017

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prickly heat

noun

medical : a skin rash that people sometimes get during hot weather

prickly heat

noun

prick·ly heat | \ ˈprik-lē-

: a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples with intense itching and tingling caused by inflammation around the sweat ducts

— called also heat rash

— see miliaria