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psora (SOH ruh)
1. A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.
2. 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.
3. Any itching eruption.
4. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by an itch eruption; also called, scabies.
2. 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.
3. Any itching eruption.
4. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by an itch eruption; also called, scabies.
Scabies is a transmissible ectoparasite skin infection characterized by superficial burrows, intense pruritus (itching) and secondary infection. The word scabies is Latin for "itch".
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