itch

[A.S. gikkan.] i. To be the seat of a peculiar, indescribable sensation which produces an impulse to scratch the part. 2. Scabies. 3. In general, any cutaneous affection, without specific lesion, marked by intense itching or pruritus. baker's a pruritus affecting the hands and arms of bakers who mix the dough by hand bar'ber's i., sycosis vulgar is, bath i., pruritus excited by contact with cold water, coo'lie i., ground i. co'- pra i., a dermatitis occurring in workers in copra mills, caused by the presence of a mite, Tyro glyph us long i or^ var. castellan i i. dhobie i., tinea cruris, grain i., an affection similar to or identical with straw i. gro'cers' i., an affection of the same character as copra i., caused by a species of Tyro glyph us.* ground i., coolie i., swamp water water-sore, uncinariasis cutis; a vesicular dermatitis attacking the feet of coolies working during the rainy season in the tea gardens of A am, characterized by swelling and itching, followed by an eruption of reddish macules or papules soon becoming vesicular; the affection has been observed in other parts of the tropics and sub-tropics in Asia and America; the generally accepted theory of its production is that it is caused by the entrance of embryos of ancylostoma or uncinaria. lum'berm an's i., winter i., pruritus* hiemal is. Malabar' i., tinea imbricata. prairie i., a pruritus of indefinite, and probably varied, origin, affecting farm laborers, straw i., straw-bed i., an urticarioid eruption caused by a minute mite, variously described as Pediculoides ventricosus and Dit rope not us aureoviridis, which infests the straw of mattre es and attacks persons sleeping thereon. summer swamp ground i. toe i., uncinariasis cutis, ground i. i., tion of the hands and arms of washerwomen, dish-washers, and others whose hands are constantly immersed in soap-suds, water i., ground i. i.,