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Definition of Prurigo
1. Noun. Chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching.
Definition of Prurigo
1. n. A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
Definition of Prurigo
1. Noun. (medicine) A papular disease of the skin, with intense itching as the main symptom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prurigo
1. a skin disease [n -GOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prurigo
Literary usage of Prurigo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"The VARIETIES of prurigo are two in number, namely— prurigo vulgaris, prurigo
senilis. prurigo VULGARIS embraces the mildest form of the series of symptoms ..."
2. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"It is only toward the end of the second or the beginning of the third year that
the small prurigo papule appears, first at the extensor surface of the lower ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1868)
"He also says that when prurigo is an idio- pathic affection the use of chloroform
is often of great service, applied either in the form of vapour or of an ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1865)
"prurigo is not a disease which directly compromises the existence, but its obstinacy,
... prurigo especially affects the nervous and the suffering. ..."
5. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"prurigo is a rare chronic, inflammatory disease, beginning in early life, ...
There are two varieties usually described, prurigo mitis and prurigo ferox ..."
6. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1896)
"The frequency of the prurigo of Hebra is greatest in the capital where the ...
The condition known in early childhood as infantile Urticaria, Lichen prurigo ..."
7. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and by James Nevins Hyde (1893)
"prurigo is a chronic, exudative, cutaneous affection, commonly beginning in
infancy or ... The term, prurigo, is one of those which in the past have led to ..."
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