NOUN | cognition | pruritus | an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.) |
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Meaning | An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.). | |
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Narrower | pruritus ani | chronic itching of the skin around the anus |
pruritus vulvae | persistent itching of the external female genitalia | |
Broader | itch, itchiness, itching | An irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch |
Spanish | prurito | |
Catalan | pruïja |
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