pruritus

(pru-ri‘tus) [L. from pruri’re to itch). Intense itching. It is a symptom of various skin diseases, and may occur idiopathically as a neurosis. p. a’ni, intense itching at the anus. bath-p. See bath-stch, under itch. Duhring’s p., pruritus hiemal is. e ential p., pruritus + zone). Situated 787 PSEUDELMINTH ͵ which cannot be attributed to any skin disease. p. hiema’lis, winter-itch: a skin disease peculiar to cold weather. It is unconnected with structural lesions. p. sen i’lis, a neurotic itching in the aged, due to degeneration in the skin. symptomatic p., itching which is symptomatic of some other general disease. Ὦ. vul'vas, a disease consisting of intense itching of the external genitals of the female.