urticaria

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See also: urticária and urticària

English

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male person displaying cholinergic urticaria on the volar aspect of the forearm

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

Pronunciation

Noun

urticaria (countable and uncountable, plural urticarias)

  1. (pathology) Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "And the cramps when my body - like a badly articulated skeleton - would all get twisted into one rigid tangle! But now, except some dyspepsia and urticaria of the palms, I am free from pain."
    • 2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic‎:
      So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.

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Latin

Etymology

From ū̆rtīca +‎ -āria.

Pronunciation

Noun

ū̆rtīcāria f (genitive ū̆rtīcāriae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) urticaria

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ū̆rtīcāria ū̆rtīcāriae
Genitive ū̆rtīcāriae ū̆rtīcāriārum
Dative ū̆rtīcāriae ū̆rtīcāriīs
Accusative ū̆rtīcāriam ū̆rtīcāriās
Ablative ū̆rtīcāriā ū̆rtīcāriīs
Vocative ū̆rtīcāria ū̆rtīcāriae

Descendants

Portuguese

Verb

urticaria

  1. first/third-person singular conditional of urticar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uɾtiˈkaɾja/
  • Rhymes: -aɾja
  • Syllabification: ur‧ti‧ca‧ria

Noun

urticaria f (plural urticarias)

  1. urticaria

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