Header Logo

Miliaria

"Miliaria" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
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)


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Miliaria" by people in this website by year, and whether "Miliaria" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

© 2024 Kaiser Permanente