different between pruritus vs psoriasis

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ps?ríasis), from ???? (ps?ra, “itch”) (English psora) + -??? (-sis, “nouns of action”) (English -sis).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a??s?s

Noun

psoriasis (countable and uncountable, plural psoriases)

1. (medicine) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.

Derived terms

Related terms

• psora

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?psori?sis/, [?ps?o?ri??s?is?]
• Rhymes: -?sis
• Syllabification: pso?ri?a?sis

Noun

psoriasis

1. (medicine) psoriasis

Declension

Synonyms

• psoriaasi
• hilsetystauti

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ps?ríasis), from ???? (ps?ra, “itch”) + -??? (-sis, “action, process”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so??jasis/, [so??ja.sis]

• IPA^(key): /so??jasis/, [so??ja.sis]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Hyphenation: pso?ria?sis

Noun

psoriasis f (plural psoriasis)

1. (dermatology) psoriasis

Derived terms

• psoriásico
• psoriasiforme

Further reading

• “psoriasis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.