| wildfire | 1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire. "Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . Burn cruelly, and hard to quench." (Bacon) 2. <medicine> An old name for erysipelas. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin. 3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wildfire rash | 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) |