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nettle rash

noun

Pathology.
  1. urticaria resulting from contact with various plants causing local irritation.


nettle rash

noun

  1. a nontechnical name for urticaria
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of nettle rash1

First recorded in 1730–40
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Example Sentences

On the side of the road, he got a stinging nettle rash.

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For many children the stinging pain of their first nettle rash is also a gentle first lesson about the darker side of nature.

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The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.

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Internally, used for.—Gravel, gout, irritable bladder, nettle rash, eruption.

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He looked more like a case of nettle rash, especially when Vernabelle gripped his hand at parting and called him comrade!

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