different between itchy vs pruritus

English

Etymology

itch +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?i/
• Rhymes: -?t?i

Adjective

itchy (comparative itchier, superlative itchiest)

1. Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch.

Derived terms

• itchy feet
• itchy trigger finger

Related terms

• itchiness

Translations

References

• The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary

Anagrams

• Tichy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?r?tus (“itch, itching”), from pr?ri? (“itch”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pro?o-r??t?s, IPA^(key): /p?u???a?t?s/

Noun

pruritus (usually uncountable, plural prurituses)

1. (medicine) severe itching, especially 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

• pruritogenic
• pruritogen

Ido

Verb

pruritus

1. conditional of pruritar

Latin

Etymology

From pr?ri? (“itch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pru??ri?.tus/, [p?u???i?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pru?ri.tus/, [p?u??i?t?us]

Noun

pr?r?tus m (genitive pr?r?t?s); fourth declension

1. an itching, itch

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• pr?r?t?vus

Descendants

• Galician: proído, proício, prurito
• Ido: prurito
• Portuguese: prurido, pruído
• Spanish: prurito
• Italian: prurito

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