PRURITUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pruritus mean? 

• PRURITUS (noun)
  The noun PRURITUS has 1 sense:

1. an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)

  Familiarity information: PRURITUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRURITUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pruritus" is a kind of...):

itch; itchiness; itching (an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pruritus"):

pruritus ani (chronic itching of the skin around the anus)

pruritus vulvae (persistent itching of the external female genitalia)

 Context examples 

As a result, halobetasol reduces edema, erythema, and pruritus through its cutaneous effects on vascular dilation and permeability.

(Halobetasol, NCI Thesaurus)

Characteristics include the presence of firm subcutaneous nodules filled with adult worms, pruritus, and ocular lesions.

(Onchocerciasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, anorexia, jaundice, pruritus, nausea and vomiting, and weight loss.

(Extrahepatic Bile Duct Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms may appear within minutes to hours following the infusion and may include pruritus, flushing, swelling, dyspnea, bronchospasm, and hypotension.

(Infusion-Related Reaction, NCI Thesaurus)

A symptom complex characterized by nervousness, chest pain, back pain, palpations, pruritus, and other usually mild symptoms occurring minutes following the initiation of dialysis with a new dialyzer.

(Dialyzer First Use Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Overall, this agent blocks the actions of endogenous histamine, thereby leads to temporary relief of the negative symptoms associated with histamine and achieve effects such as decreased vascular permeability, reduction of pruritus and localized smooth muscle relaxation.

(Fexofenadine, NCI Thesaurus)