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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L., an itching, the itch, fr.

prurire

to itch.]

(Med.)

A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.

prurigo ‎(countable and uncountable, plural prurigos)

(medicine) A papular disease of the skin, with intense itching as the main symptom.

From prūriō ‎(“I itch”).

prūrigō f ‎(genitive prūriginis); third declension

Third declension.