pruritus

Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“itch, itching”), from prūriō (“itch”).

• enPR: pro͞o-rīʹtəs, IPA^(key): /pɹuːˈɹaɪtəs/

pruritus (usually uncountable, plural prurituses)

1. (medicine) Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma etc.
   • 2018, AbbVie, "FDA Grants AbbVie's Upadacitinib Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Atopic Dermatitis", Drug Discovery & Development

     Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, is characterized by skin erosion, oozing and crusting, redness, intense itching (pruritus) and dry skin.

• pruritic
• pruritus ani
• pruritogenic
• pruritogen

pruritus

1. conditional of pruritar

From prūriō (“itch”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pruːˈriː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pruˈriː.t̪us]

prūrītus m (genitive prūrītūs); fourth declension

1. an itching, itch

Fourth-declension noun.

• prūrītīvus

• “pruritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pruritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.