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Definition of Itching
1. Noun. An irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch.
Generic synonyms: Cutaneous Sensation, Haptic Sensation, Skin Sensation
Specialized synonyms: Pruritus
Derivative terms: Itch, Itch, Itchy, Itchy, Itch
Definition of Itching
1. Verb. (present participle of itch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Itching
1. an uneasy or tingling skin sensation [n -S]
Medical Definition of Itching
1. Medically known as pruritis. Something that is itchy is pruritic. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Itching
Literary usage of Itching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The cause of the itching is unknown. In all probability it is some ... In ordinary
icteric itching it most probably enters the circulation with the bile, ..."
2. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"The rapidity with which the itching in scabies subsides under sulphur treatment
... itching produced by a bite of a mosquito is out of all proportion to the ..."
3. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"To examine how far the Phenomena of itching and Titillation are agreeable to the
... itching often attends the beginning and ending of inflammations, ..."
4. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"To examine how far the Phenomena of itching and Titillation are agreeable to the
... itching often attends the beginning and ending of inflammations, ..."
5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"This definition of itching does not apply to the cutaneous pruritus arising in
diseases of the ... or to the itching caused by animal or plant parasites. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1875)
"Eruption in the left corner of the mouth, like an itching tetter,1. ...
itching eruption on the neck and shoulders just before menstruation,1. ..."
7. The Prescriber: A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics by John Henry Clarke (1897)
"Intolerable itching of the whole body, worse on getting warm in bed at night,
dry skin, ... itching coming on when the part is exposed to cold, Rumex c. ..."
8. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1883)
"itching as a Symptom of Bright's Disease.—During the course of Bright's disease
itching is often experienced unconnected with any cutaneous eruption, ..."
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