scabies

(ska’be-éz) [L. from scab’ere scratch]. The itch; a contagious skin disease due to the itch-mite, Sercop’les scabic’i, which bores beneath the skin, forming cuniculi or burrows. The disease is attended with intense itching, together 850 SCANDIUM with the eczema caused by scratching. Boeck’s 8., 8. crus to’sa, Norwegian itch; a form characterized by crusts and pustules, and said to be due to an acarid parasitic upon wolves. 8. fer i’‘na, acariasis itch of animals. Norw 8., radesyge.