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Characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
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scabies
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Word definitions for scabies in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Itch \Itch\, n. (Med.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei ), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact. Any itching eruption. A sensation in the skin occasioned ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skin disease, "the itch," c.1400, from Latin scabies "mange, itch, roughness," from scabere "to scratch, scrape," from PIE root *(s)kep- , a base forming words meaning "to cut, scrape, hack" (cognates: Gothic scaban , Old English sceafan "to scrape, shave;" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) An infestation of parasitic mites, (taxlink Sarcoptes scabiei species noshow=1), causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; ...
Usage examples of scabies.
No one ever discovers they were an illiterate peasant who died of scabies and was buried in a bog.
Also called seven-year itch or mange, scabies can spread with great ease from person to person.
Because it takes from six weeks to several months to develop a sensitivity to scabies the first time you get them, you can be spreading them unknowingly for quite a while.
Because cortisone ointments are now available, many cases of scabies go undiagnosed.
Part of the treatment consists of frequent hot baths or showers - which will kill scabies crawling on the surface of the skin.
I then arranged to treat a needy family on an urgent basis, which, as events would have it, involved nothing more than a case of childhood scabies and pinkeye.
Sheep have to be dipped annually for scabies by law, but the stuff the Ministry give you to dip them in can really poison you if you so much as breathe the fumes in.
If they are not hampered by rickets or deformities, or impetigo, scabies or vermin, then their faces are tied up on account of nerve aches, carbuncles, boils, and abscesses.
Some dots, some scabs had to be made on their faces, so they would appear to have scabies, enough to make them unattractive.
It is painful to see the prevalence of such repulsive maladies as scabies, scald-head, ringworm, sore eyes, and unwholesome-looking eruptions, and fully 30 per cent of the village people are badly seamed with smallpox.
Impetigo, scabies and the itch are too prevalent among them to be remarked upon and their feet start early to decompose between the toes.
For herself, she came clean, arrived in Paris with, nothing worse than scabies, malnutrition and ringworm about her person.
Most of them suffered from scabies and malnutrition, and four had severe cases of tuberculosis.
Bishop of Cambray, with an attack of literary scabies, looking for a young religieux who could correct his manuscript.
Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'Hôpital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished.