diaper rash

1. 1.

   dermatitis of the thighs and buttocks of infants; supposedly caused by ammonia in the urine in the child's diapers

   Synonymsdiaper dermatitis

   Broaderdermatitis

Questions about diaper rash

What does diaper rash mean?

diaper rash means "dermatitis of the thighs and buttocks of infants; supposedly caused by ammonia in the urine in the child's diapers".

What is another word for diaper rash?

Close synonyms include diaper dermatitis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diaper rash a common word?

diaper rash is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.