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chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching

chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching

A name applied to several itchy skin eruptions of unknown cause. The characteristic course is the formation of a dome-shaped papule with a small transient vesicle on top, followed by crusting over or lichenification. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

A chronic disease of the skin marked by a persistent eruption of papules which itch intensely.

Chronic inflammation of skin, with papules and extreme itching.

A peculiar papular cruption of the skin, attended with intolerable itching.

An eruptive disease of the skin, accompanied by much itching; the itch.

The word is often used synonymously with itching. Willan and Bateman use the term for a genus of cutaneous diseases, the characteristic symptoms of which are a severe itching, accompanied by an eruption of papulae of nearly the same colour as the adjoining cuticle; Cuesmos, Scabies paputiform'is, Exor'mia pruri'go. It affects the whole surface of the skin, under three varieties of form; - the P. mitis, P. formi'cans, P. seni'lis, &c., as well as some parts of the body, as the P. pod'icis, and P. puden'di mulie'bris, Puden'dagra pru'riens, Pruri'tus vulvae, (F.) Prurit de la vulve.

Heat- p. Pedicularis, Phtheiriasis.

Papular skin-disease with itching.

A disease characterized by a persistent abundant eruption of recurring pale inflammatory papules, which itch intensely and result accordingly in an exaggerated condition of scratched skin. [Lat.]

n. [Latin] A papular disease of the skin, of which itching is the principal symptom.