different between psora vs psoriasis

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ps?ra, from Ancient Greek ???? (ps?ra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s???.?/

Noun

psora (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A cutaneous disease, especially psoriasis, scabies, or mange.

Related terms

• psoriasis
• psorosis

Anagrams

• Paros, Poras, aspro, praos, proas, rapos, rapso, roaps, sapor, sapro-

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (ps?ra, “itch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pso?.ra/, [?ps?o??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pso.ra/, [?ps????]

Noun

ps?ra f (genitive ps?rae); first declension

1. the itch, mange

   Synonyms: scabi?s, sarna

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: psora (learned)
• ? French: psora, psore (learned)

References

• psora in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• psora 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.