(v. i.) To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
(v. i.) To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
(n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
(n.) Any itching eruption.
(n.) A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
(n.) A constant irritating desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of the depth of injection and of skin temperature on the latency, magnitude, and duration of itch were examined.
(2) It was found that medrysone (1%) significantly improved the symptoms of itching, watering, photophobia and hyperaemia, while sodium cromoglycate (2%) was found to be ineffective.
(3) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(4) The speediest effect was registered for sneezing, followed by nasal catarrh, nasal itching, and blocking.
(5) We reviewed 52 reports in the literature of the use of epidural and spinal opiates to assess the incidence of itching and found an overall incidence of 8.5% in patients receiving epidural opiates, and 46% in patients receiving spinal opiates.
(6) Side effects with OTFC were more frequent: nose itching occurred in 65%, body itching in 10%, and vomiting in 30%.
(7) Itching appeared before erythema in 83% of subjects and within 5-8 min after instillation of the allergen.
(8) Topical BDP by both methods of delivery was rapidly effective in decreasing mean nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and itching symptoms as well as mean eye symptoms with no statistically significant differences between them.
(9) Chlorpheniramine given alone produced no significant benefit whilst cimetidine alone produced a marked exacerbation in itching in nearly half the patients who initially entered the study and was sufficient to require withdrawal.
(10) But the ad any American politico worth his salt would be itching to make would open thus.
(11) The treatment proved to be effective in those with toxicoderma, secondary xanthomatosis, porphyria cutanea tarda, skin itching, and urticaria, particularly in the cases when toxic exposures and gastrointestinal conditions contributed to the disease pathogenesis.
(12) Degrees of itching were estimated before and for 6 months after a fourth dose of ivermectin or placebo was given to 97 subjects in Sierra Leone.
(13) "Itching" was the most frequent complaint, encountered in 20 (69%) of the study patient.
(14) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(15) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
(16) PUPP is a specific eruptive dermatosis in pregnancy, clinically characterized by erythematous papules and plaques with intense itching in periumbilical localization.
(17) Severity of itching was determined by a visual linear analogue scale.
(18) Giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) is largely a soft contact lens-related syndrome, characterized by the formation of giant papillae on the upper tarsal conjunctiva, itching, excess mucus, erythema, and contact lens intolerance.
(19) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(20) The study which was carried out in 20 patients confirmed the lack of collateral effects on the fetus, mother (except for slight itching in 25% of cases) and the progress of labour.
Tickled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Tickle
Example Sentences:
(1) The current script is still being tickled every day.
(2) However, nurturers of Britain’s nascent wine industry with an eye on an emerging market, where appreciation of wine is a status symbol, might hope that senior communist party palettes will have been tickled by the Ridgeview Grosvenor 2009, a sparking English wine originating in West Sussex.
(3) In man, lesions of the posterior columns cause an increase in pain, tickle, warmth and cold.
(4) "I'd be tickled to death if it would make 50 bushels (1.5 tonnes), if we don't have rain," he said.
(5) They remember his louche looseness with the facts , his willingness to invent stories of EU straight-banana absurdity to tickle the prejudices of his readers back home.
(6) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
(7) Four profoundly hearing-impaired adults who did not meet current selection criteria for implantation at the University of Melbourne were each fitted with a wearable multichannel electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker).
(8) He was tickled, once, while walking through Greenwich Village, to see "a guy came along the street wearing a muscle T-shirt, very tight.
(9) The children were able to use tactile input to achieve higher scores on three speech feature subtests of the PLOTT test when using the Tickle Talker plus hearing aids as compared to hearing aids alone.
(10) Now, I love this sort of thing – it's my job to be tickled by it – but there comes a point when you finally have to ask, where is your movie, Mr Verbinski?
(11) The recording tickled him because it sounds nothing like a car, but exactly like the sound of a cow mooing.
(12) For myself, it’s not something I’ve been accustomed to experimenting with.” Spy review – uproarious Paul Feig comedy tickles SXSW Read more Feig wrote the part especially for Statham.
(13) Although the subjects' stimulations were unaffected by looking at the gestures, the tactual stimulus elicited a tickle sensation.
(14) As part of a larger subject group, four profoundly hearing-impaired children enrolled in a total communication educational program were fitted with the University of Melbourne's multichannel electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker).
(15) To study these, Ss rated perceived "tickle-strength" in situations where they were tickled: (a) with their eyes closed; (b) with their eyes open; (c) with their own arm doing the tickling, but being moved by someone else; (d) by themselves.
(16) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
(17) We examined separately tickle perception and pleasure and anxiety during sexual sequence of 40 dermapathic (20 men and 22 women) and 39 normal subjects (20 men and 19 women) aged between 35 and 40 yr.
(18) Pregnancy leads to modifications in sensitivity to tickle, specifically with regard to the right half of the body and to some extent in body schema.
(19) "His promised new party is far from certain to get into parliament, but depending on how well it tickles the fancies of some of the more radical, marginalised, and disillusioned voters and non-voters, the so-called Mega party could have a huge impact on who forms the next government."
(20) The biological baseline here is usually the laughter caused by tickling, which most of us assume to be some simple form of reflex action.