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Synonyms for scabies
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skey-beez, -bee-eez |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈskeɪ biz, -biˌiz |
Top 10 synonyms for scabies
Définition of scabies
Origin :- skin disease, "the itch," c.1400, from Latin scabies "mange, itch, roughness," from scabere "to scratch, scrape," from PIE root *(s)kep-, a base forming words meaning "to cut, scrape, hack" (cf. Gothic scaban, Old English sceafan "to scrape, shave;" Greek skaptein "to dig;" "Old Church Slavonic skobli "scraper;" Lithuanian skabus "sharp," skabeti "to cut;" Lettish skabrs "splintery, sharp"). Related: Scabious.
- As in sexually transmitted disease : noun disease given through sexual relations
- As in mange : noun rash
- I happened to have blood-poisoning, not scabies, and I have it still.
- Extract from : « An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 » by William Orpen
- As for Sulphur, "the common people have long used it as an ointment" for scabies.
- Extract from : « Medical Essays » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- The Guinea pig, like the rabbit, suffers from scabies and coccidiosis.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Bacteriological Technique » by John William Henry Eyre
- Is the grade of cutaneous irritation the same in all cases of scabies?
- Extract from : « Essentials of Diseases of the Skin » by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
- Scabies is an itching skin disease, which it takes at least a week to cure.
- Extract from : « A German deserter's war experience » by Anonymous
- Mercury is used for chronic and syphilitic laryngitis and pharyngitis; sulphur for scabies and other skin diseases.
- Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 » by Various
- Cases of erysipelas, scarlatina, scabies, and diphtheria were met with in small numbers.
- Extract from : « The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt » by James W. Barrett
- Kamala is also used externally by the natives of India in various skin complaints, particularly in scabies.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
- Itch′iness; Itch′-mite, a mite which burrows in the skin, causing itch or scabies.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- That Scabies, or the itch, is occasioned by a mite, is not a doctrine peculiar to the moderns.
- Extract from : « An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. I (of 4) » by William Kirby
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