miliaria

(mil-i-ah'ri-ah) [L. miliarius, relating to millet.] I. An eruption of minute vesicles due to retention of fiuid at the mouths of the sweat follicles. 2. Miliary fever, a mild febrile affection accompanied by an eruption of minute papules, each tipped by a vesicle the fever is of short duration, the vesicles quickly dry up, , and a slight branny desquamation follows, m. al'ba, m. with vesicles containing a milky fluid due to maceration and detachment of the epider-