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Definition: Pruritus |
PruritusNoun1. An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pruritus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Etymology: Pruritus \Pru*ri"tus\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An intense itching sensation that produces the urge to rub or scratch the skin to obtain relief. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Pruritus |
| English words defined with "pruritus": methapyrilene ♦ pheniramine, pyrilamine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pruritus": Antipsychotic Agents ♦ Clemastine ♦ Dermatitis, Atopic, Dimethindene, Dracunculiasis ♦ Mansonelliasis ♦ pruritic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pruritus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (itching, pruritus), Dutch (pruritus), German (pruritus). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many anorectal problems, including fissures, fistulae, abscesses, or irritation and itching (pruritus ani), have similar symptoms and are incorrectly referred to as hemorrhoids. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pruritus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pruritus" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pruritus": Pruritus Ani ♦ Pruritus Vulvae. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pruritus | 121 |
pruritus ani | 29 |
pruritus vulvae | 6 |
gravidarum pruritus | 4 |
pruritus itching | 4 |
aquagenic pruritus | 3 |
pruritus treatment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pruritus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сърбеж (itch, tingle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pruritus (itching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pruritus (itching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pruritus vulvae (pruritus of the vulva, pruritus vulvae), häpykutina (pruritus of the vulva, pruritus vulvae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prurit (m), prurit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pruritus (itching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κνησμός του αιδοίου (pruritus of the vulva, pruritus vulvae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prurito (itch, pricking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소양증. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urituspray prurido (formication, itch, prurience, pruriency, tingle). (various references) prurito (itch). (various references) свербіж (itch, prurience, pruriency, tingle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pruritus": prurituses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pruritus" (pronounced 'Pru*ri"tus'): Afflatus, Ailantus, Alto-stratus, Amotus, Asphaltus, Attritus, Benedictus, Boletus, Cactus, Cognatus, Conatus, Conspectus, Cumu-cirro-stratus, Delectus, fetus, ictus, Leptus, Literatus, Mallotus, meatus, Notus, Pectus, Pericarditus, Plutus, Productus, Prospectus, Quietus, rectus, rictus, Salaeratus, Sanctus, Scorbutus, singultus, Situs, status, Subsultus, tinnitus, Vermetus, Victus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-r-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: irrupts, pursuit, stirrup. | |
-2 letters: irrupt, purist, upstir. | |
-3 letters: puris, purrs, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurt, stirp, strip, trips, turps, usurp. | |
-4 letters: pits, puri, purr, purs, puts, rips, rust, ruts, spit, spur, stir, suit, tips, trip, tuis, tups, urus. | |
-5 letters: its, pis, pit, piu, psi, pur, pus, put, rip, rut, sip, sir, sit, sri, sup, tip. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-r-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: prurituses. | |
+4 letters: jurisprudent, unscriptural. | |
+5 letters: jurisprudents, supervirtuosi, supervirtuoso, surreptitious. | |
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