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‖ prurigo|prʊəˈraɪgəʊ|
[L., an itching, lasciviousness, f. prūrīre to itch.]
An itching; spec. in Path., a diseased condition of the skin attended by a violent and chronic itching, and characterized by the presence of flat slightly red papules, and a thickening of the part affected. Formerly including other irritant skin diseases. Also attrib.
a1646J. Gregory Posthuma (1650) 102 A Fever hee had, but not of anie acute kinde: an unsufferable Prurigo over all his bodie. 1706Phillips, Prurigo, an itching or tickling, an Itch. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 144 The skin..becomes the seat of a very lively pricking, of prurigo, and of an abundant perspiration. 1876J. S. Bristowe The. & Pract. Med. (1878) 357 According to the latter authority, prurigo is a disease of remarkable intractableness, if not incurable. |