| miliaria | <medicine> A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever. Origin: NL. See Miliary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| miliaria alba | Miliaria with vesicles containing a milky fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria crystallina | A noninflammatory form of miliaria in which the vesicles are filled with clear fluid. Synonym: crystal rash, sudamina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria profunda | Pale firm papules, most commonly on the trunk; it is asymptomatic and results from severe damage to the sweat ducts after repeated episodes of miliaria rubra or from experimental injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria rubra | 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) |
| apocrine miliaria | Chronic pruritic disease, usually in women, characterised by small follicular papular eruptions in apocrine areas. It is caused by obstruction and rupture of intraepidermal apocrine ducts. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| pustular miliaria | An eruption of pustules that occurs usually in very hot weather and mostly on the flexor aspects of the limbs, the groins, and the axillae; the lesions are situated at the orifices of sweat glands. (05 Mar 2000) |