NOUN
- an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)
How To Use pruritus In A Sentence
- hits is hitting, felt that the head fierce ache, the skin pruritus hard to endure and so on untoward effect ..." Dr. Yang has opened some analgetic pill to her.
- Latex allergic reactions range from pruritus to erythematous, weeping lesions.
- Pruritus vulvae, in its severest forms, is often developed when the discharge is scarcely noticeable. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- In prurigo nodularis, pruritus is the main symptom and it is of immediate importance to find an effective antipruritic therapy.
- Adverse effects include stomatitis, hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, nausea, abdominal pain, neutropenia, pruritus, fever, pneumonitis and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
- Pityriasis rosea may lead to a truncal macular rash, sometimes with pruritus.
- The opium peptide should be relative with the onset of pruritus and Vidal disease.
- Anal itching, also known as itchy bottom, pruritus ani or anusitis, is irritation and sometimes inflammation of the anus - located at the exit of the rectum. Medlogs - Recent stories
- I mean, how would you feel about my credentials (a pharmacist) if I confused anti-pyretic (fever reducing) with pruritus ani (chronic itching of the skin around the anus). Think Progress » ThinkFast: August 16, 2006
- Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children.
