courapn.
/ˈkʊərəp/ ‘Name given in India to cutaneous diseases attended with itching and eruptions’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Courap, a kind of Indian Itch, a Disease like a Tetter or Ring-worm.
1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) Courap, a distemper very common in Java, and other parts of the East Indies, where there is a perpetual itching and discharge of matter. It is herpes on the axilla, groins, breast, and face.
1868 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (ed. 9) 178 Courap, a form of Impetigo, peculiar to India, described by Sauvages under the term scabies Indica.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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