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)

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