nettle-rash
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Noun
nettle-rash (countable and uncountable, plural nettle-rashes)
- (medicine) Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 495:
- Poor kids. Only troubles wildfire and nettlerash.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 187:
- They and their relatives ate peanuts till they were covered in nettle-rash.
- 1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 99:
- His skin was covered with little bumps as though from a nettle rash. I looked for the tick he had flung away. It was black and swollen from old blood and it seemed clear that this infected blood had got into the wound and caused acute blood poisoning.
- 1997, Edna O'Brien, Down by the River, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 242:
- His colour is changing now, he does not have to look in the mirror, it's like a nettle-rash rising, scalding, scalding.
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itchy areas of the skin — see urticaria