scabies

Stedman's Medical Dictionary: A Practical Medical Dictionary · 1920 · p. 31

(ska'bl-ez) [L. scabere, to scratch.] The itch, dermatitis, accompanied with intense itching, caused by the burrowing beneath the skin of the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. s. cnisto'sa, Boeck's* itch.