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| hives |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) a mild illness characterized by the eruption of small, itchy bumps on the skin, often as an allergic reaction. |
| hot spot |
an inflamed, itchy, oozing sore on the skin of an animal, esp. a dog. [1/4 definitions] |
| onchocerciasis |
a tropical disease transmitted by flies in which parasitic worms cause itchy rashes, skin lesions, blindness, and sometimes elephantiasis; river blindness. |
| ringworm |
any of several contagious skin diseases caused by fungi and producing scaly, itchy, ring-shaped patches on the skin. |
| scratchy |
causing or likely to cause scratching; itchy. [1/3 definitions] |
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