pruritus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“an itch, an itching”), from prūriō (“to itch”). === Pronunciation === enPR: pro͞o-rīʹtəs, IPA(key): /pɹuːˈɹaɪtəs/ === Noun === pruritus (usually uncountable, plural prurituses) (medicine) Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma, etc. 2018, AbbVie, "FDA Grants AbbVie's Upadacitinib Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Atopic Dermatitis", Drug Discovery & Development Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, is characterized by skin erosion, oozing and crusting, redness, intense itching (pruritus) and dry skin. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Ido == === Verb === pruritus conditional of pruritar == Latin == === Etymology === From prūriō (“to itch”) + -tus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pruːˈriː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pruˈriː.tus] === Noun === prūrītus m (genitive prūrītūs); fourth declension an itching, itch ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== prūrītīvus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “pruritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pruritus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.