| / English Dictionary |
PRURITUS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pruritus" is a kind of...):
itch; itchiness; itching (an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pruritus"):
pruritus ani (chronic itching of the skin around the anus)
pruritus vulvae (persistent itching of the external female genitalia)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
