prickly heat

1. 1.

   obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity

   Synonymsheat rashmiliaria

   Broaderrash

Questions about prickly heat

What does prickly heat mean?

prickly heat means "obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity".

What is another word for prickly heat?

Close synonyms include heat rash, miliaria. 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 prickly heat a common word?

prickly heat 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.