'Scabies' definitions:
Definition of 'scabies'
From: WordNet
noun
A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; "he has a bad case of the itch" [syn: scabies, itch]
Definition of 'Scabies'
From: GCIDE
- Scabies \Sca"bi*es\, n. (Med.) The itch. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'scabies'
From: GCIDE
- Itch \Itch\, n.
- 1. (Med.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any itching eruption. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A constant irritating desire. [1913 Webster]
- An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Baker's itch. See under Baker.
- Barber's itch, sycosis.
- Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
- Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus sacchari}).
- Itch insect (Zool.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append.
- Itch mite. (Zool.) Same as Itch insect, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox.
- Sugar baker's itch, a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin.
- Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scabies'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acne,
- acne vulgaris,
- anthrax,
- aphthous fever,
- bighead,
- black quarter,
- blackleg,
- blackwater,
- blind staggers,
- bloody flux,
- broken wind,
- cattle plague,
- charbon,
- dermamycosis,
- dermatitis,
- dermatosis,
- distemper,
- eczema,
- elephantiasis,
- epithelioma,
- erysipelas,
- erythema,
- exanthem,
- foot-and-mouth disease,
- gapes,
- glanders,
- heat rash,
- heaves,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- hives,
- hog cholera,
- hoof-and-mouth disease,
- hydrophobia,
- impetigo,
- itch,
- jungle rot,
- leprosy,
- lichen,
- lichen primus,
- liver rot,
- loco,
- loco disease,
- locoism,
- lupus,
- lupus vulgaris,
- mad staggers,
- malignant catarrh,
- malignant catarrhal fever,
- malignant pustule,
- mange,
- megrims,
- miliaria,
- milzbrand,
- paratuberculosis,
- pemphigus,
- pip,
- prickly heat,
- pruigo,
- pruritus,
- pseudotuberculosis,
- psora,
- quarter evil,
- rabies,
- rinderpest,
- ringworm,
- rot,
- sheep rot,
- shingles,
- skin cancer,
- splenic fever,
- staggers,
- stringhalt,
- swine dysentery,
- tetter,
- Texas fever