Pruritus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Severe itching, often of undamaged skin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. severe itching, especially of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma etc
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Itching.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An itching; more specifically, a functional affection of the skin characterized by simple itching without structural change.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)
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    itchiness    itching    itch   
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    itching   
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