Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Infestation with lice, especially crab lice; pediculosis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The presence of lice on the body, with the irritation produced thereby and its effects; the lousy disease, formerly called morbus pediculosus.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine An infestation with crab lice
- n. A pediculosis
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A disease (
morbus pediculous ) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.
Etymologies
- Latin phthīriāsis, from Greek phtheiriāsis, from phtheiriān, to be lousy, from phtheir, louse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Schiödte, a Danish entomologist, has, it seems to us, forever settled the question as to whether the louse bites the flesh or sucks blood, and decides a point interesting to physicians, _i. e._, that the loathsome disease called phthiriasis is a nonentity.”
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“Aeneas was dreadfully tossed and endangered by a storm; and perhaps for the same reason Herod, that tyrant and cruel King of Judaea, finding himself near the pangs of a horrid kind of death — for he died of a phthiriasis, devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of”
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“Pediculosis: a state of lousiness, or the abnormal condition caused by the multiplication of lice on the body: sec phthiriasis.”
““Sir,” said he, “had Wilkes's mob prevailed against government, this nation had died of phthiriasis.”
“Sir," said he, "had Wilkes's mob prevailed against government, this nation had died of _phthiriasis_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phthiriasis’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Words I wish I didn't know
I'll be listing items from my personal collection, but feel free to add whatever you like--I'm sure it will be helpful to know which things I won't want to know.
every potential l..., ubi pus ibi evacua, suppuration, suppurative chola..., nonsuppurative ch..., warm antibody hem..., subarachnoid hemo..., amortization sche..., tire rotation, thunderclap headache, feeding tube, appraised value and 32 more...
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phth
Words with that sequence of letters
phthalo, phthalate, apophthegm, phthalocyanine, naphtha, phthor, phthisic, diphtheria, ophthalmologist, exophthalmia, diphthong, phthongometer and 52 more...
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skipvia's Words
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Tweets
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hernesheir ...the lousy disease... --from the definitions. Nov 29, 2011
trivet *shiver* Oct 18, 2007
yarb If only I'd known. Oct 18, 2007
skipvia An infestation of crab lice. Oct 18, 2007