Scabies

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scabies \Sca"bi*es\, n. (Med.)
     The itch.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Itch \Itch\, n.
     1. (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.
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     2. Any itching eruption.
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     3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that
        occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also
        {scabies}, {psora}, etc.
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     4. A constant irritating desire.
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              An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden.
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     {Baker's itch}. See under {Baker}.
  
     {Barber's itch}, sycosis.
  
     {Bricklayer's itch}, an eczema of the hands attended with
        much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
  
     {Grocer's itch}, an itching eruption, being a variety of
        eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus
        sacchari}).
  
     {Itch insect} (Zool.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes
        scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin,
        thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in
        Append.
  
     {Itch mite}. (Zool.) Same as {Itch insect}, above. Also,
        other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the
        horse and ox.
  
     {Sugar baker's itch}, a variety of eczema, due to the action
        of sugar upon the skin.
  
     {Washerwoman's itch}, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring
        among washerwomen.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scabies
       n : a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite;
           characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation;
           "he has a bad case of the itch" [syn: {itch}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "scabies":
     Texas fever, acne, acne vulgaris, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead,
     black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux,
     broken wind, cattle plague, charbon, dermamycosis, dermatitis,
     dermatosis, distemper, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma,
     erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes,
     glanders, heat rash, heaves, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster,
     hives, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, impetigo,
     itch, jungle rot, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, liver rot, loco,
     loco disease, locoism, lupus, lupus vulgaris, mad staggers,
     malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule,
     mange, megrims, miliaria, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pemphigus,
     pip, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, pseudotuberculosis, psora,
     quarter evil, rabies, rinderpest, ringworm, rot, sheep rot,
     shingles, skin cancer, splenic fever, staggers, stringhalt,
     swine dysentery, tetter