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Miliaria
Medical Definition: | 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) |
Guide Notes: | a sweat gland dis |
Also Called: | Miliaria Rubra |
Fox-Fordyce Disease - Chronic pruritic disease, usually in women, characterized by small follicular papular eruptions in apocrine areas. It is caused by obstruction and rupture of intraepidermal apocrine ducts. (From Dorland, 27th ed) |
Miliaria Medical Definitions and Terms
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