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- Latin · borrowed fromprūrītus“an itch, an itching”
- English todaypruritus
Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“an itch, an itching”), from prūriō (“to itch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pruritus
Today it means: Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma, etc. Full definition →
Latin prūrītus