| 释义 |
mange
\ˈmānj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English manjewe, from Middle French mangeue appetite, itching, from mangier to eat — more at manger
1. : any of various more or less severe, persistent, and contagious skin diseases that are marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair and that affect domestic animals or sometimes man; especially : a skin disease caused by a minute parasitic mite of Sarcoptes, Psoroptes, Chorioptes, or related genera that burrows in or lives on the skin or of Demodex that lives in the hair follicles or sebaceous glands — see chorioptic mange, demodectic mange, psoroptic mange, sarcoptic mange; itch 1b, scabies; compare scab
2. archaic : a constant irritating desire : itch |