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scabies

/skey-beez, -bee-eez/US // ˈskeɪ biz, -biˌiz //UK // (ˈskeɪbiːz, -bɪˌiːz) //

疥疮,癞皮病,疥癣,瘌痢头

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.

    • : a contagious skin disease occurring especially in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin.Compare itch, mange.

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Examples

  • For nationalists who hate gay people, perhaps the parallel should be “When Russia scratches, the world gets scabies.”

  • I tried to sneak in a quick scratch every time Bachardy looked down, but I must have looked like a crazy person with scabies.

  • I happened to have blood-poisoning, not scabies, and I have it still.

  • Is the grade of cutaneous irritation the same in all cases of scabies?

  • Under the year following, 1275, he enters it again, using the term scabies.

  • The men who went to the “scabies” hospital, at Bourmont, of whom there was a considerable number, were the ones who had the rest.

  • This disease is very contagious, and is much more resistant than the ordinary scabies.