urticaria

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɜɹtɪˈkɛəɹi.ə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɜːtɪˈkɛəɹi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə

urticaria (countable and uncountable, plural urticarias)

1. (pathology) Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "And the cramps when my body - like a badly articulated skeleton - would all get twisted into one rigid tangle! But now, except some dyspepsia and urticaria of the palms, I am free from pain."

   • 2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.

• hives
• nettle-rash

From ū̆rtīca +‎ -āria.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːr.tiːˈkaː.ri.a], [ʊr.tiːˈkaː.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ur.t̪iˈkaː.ri.a]

ū̆rtīcāria f (genitive ū̆rtīcāriae); first declension

1. (New Latin) urticaria

First-declension noun.

urticaria

1. first/third-person singular conditional of urticar

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

• IPA^(key): /uɾtiˈkaɾja/ [uɾ.t̪iˈka.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: ur‧ti‧ca‧ria

urticaria f (plural urticarias)

1. urticaria

• “urticaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024