pruritus
Noun
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An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.) (synset 105731756)
is a type of: itch, itchiness, itching - an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratchsubtypes:
- pruritus ani - chronic itching of the skin around the anus
- pruritus vulvae - persistent itching of the external female genitalia
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