miliaria crystallina

miliaria crystallina
miliaria crys·tal·li·na -.kris-tə-'lē-nə n SUDAMINA

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the most superficial type of miliaria; sweat escapes in or just beneath the stratum corneum, producing noninflammatory vesicles that look like droplets because of the thinness of the layer covering them. Called also m. alba and sudamina.

Miliaria crystallina.


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