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Miliaria  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Miliaria Rubra

Note

  • a sweat gland dis

Scope note

  • A syndrome of cutaneous changes associated with sweat retention and extravasation of sweat at different levels in the skin. Miliaria rubra, or prickly heat, results from apocrine duct obstruction. The sweat then seeps into the epidermis, producing pruritic erythematous papulovesicles. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • hikinäpyt
  • hikirakkulatauti
  • miliaria non specificata
  • miliaria rubra
  • määrittämätön miliaria
  • Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008883

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