different between scabies vs psoriasis

English

Etymology

From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabi?s (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scab? (“scratch, scrape”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skei.biz/
• Rhymes: -e?biz

Noun

scabies (uncountable)

1. (pathology) An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur.

Related terms

• scab
• scabrous

Translations

See also

• mange

Anagrams

• abscise, ecbasis

Latin

Etymology

From scab? (“scratch, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ska.bi.e?s/, [?s?käbie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ska.bi.es/, [?sk??bi?s]

Noun

scabi?s f (genitive scabi??); fifth declension

1. roughness, scurf
2. mildew
3. scab, mange, itch
4. (figuratively) itching, longing, pruriency

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• scabidus
• scabiola
• scabi?sus
• scabit?d?

Related terms

• scaber
• scab?
• scobis

Descendants

• Aromanian: zgaibã
• English: scabies
• Italian: scabbia
• Romanian: scabie, zgaib?

References

• scabies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scabies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scabies 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.