What's the difference between itchy and scratchy?

Itchy


Definition:

  • (a.) Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with acute or chronic liver disease often suffer from dry, itchy and flaky skin.
  • (2) The two treatments were equally effective in controlling eye irritation, sneezing, nasal congestion and itchy nose, throat and palate, but cetirizine improved rhinorrhea more than terfenadine (P less than .05).
  • (3) Acne solaris a form of acne that appears and relapses after sun exposure, is almost always itchy and is preferably localized on the upper anterior chest, the deltoid regions and the shoulders.
  • (4) The severity of the symptoms sneezing, running nose, blocked nose and itchy eyes was recorded daily by each patient on a 10 cm visual analog scale.
  • (5) A similar, although non-significant, trend was observed for sneezing and itchy nose, but there was no apparent difference in the reporting of sore eyes.
  • (6) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
  • (7) Blood tests were done weekly and patients used a visual analogue scale (VAS) from 0 to 100 to mark their level of itchiness daily.
  • (8) A day or so later came an itchy rash across her body and a fever of 39C (102F), swiftly followed by raw red conjunctivitis eyes.
  • (9) Efficacy evaluation consisted of nasal flow rates measured by rhinomanometry, sneeze counts, nasal itchiness scores, and weight of nasal secretions during challenges.
  • (10) The in vitro incorporation of 14C acetate by the epidermis has been studied in patients with autosomal dominant ichthyosis and in patients with a dry, itchy, slightly scaly skin associated with a disorder of the small bowel.
  • (11) Scratching the itchy lesions often spreads the condition by transplanting the remanent resinous toxin to other parts of the body.
  • (12) Sometimes, he says, people don't realise it's the cream that's to blame for their itchy skin, and rub even more on.
  • (13) Two days after ingestion of snails, they developed a generalized itchy maculopapular rash followed by myalgia, marked paresthesia, fever and headache.
  • (14) Although no significant differences were found for itchy nose, blocked nose, and ocular symptoms, severities tended to be generally less under levocabastine than under sodium cromoglycate.
  • (15) He wouldn't ask you to put your itchy ear up to the camera.
  • (16) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
  • (17) We examined one male and two female patients with a localised itchy erythematous papule of the eyelid.
  • (18) It was found that May was stated to be the month of onset of the disease for the indigenous group whereas June tended to be the month of onset for the immigrant group.The sample proved too small to detect any existing patterns in personal or family history, but sex links were found in both response to grass pollen and a personal history of asthma, in that men showed less tendency to asthma whilst proportionately less women than men responded to grass pollen skin tests only.We suggest that a diagnosis of hay fever should be considered in both the young and the elderly who present with recurrent symptoms occurring only in the summer months, of one or more of the following: sneezing, lacrimation, nasal drip, nasal blockage, wheezing, dry throat, or itchy eyes.
  • (19) This case report illustrates that the typical symptoms of allergic rhinitis--rhinorrhea, itchy eyes, nose and throat--should not be taken as a routine phenomenon without consideration of other differential diagnoses.
  • (20) Total symptom severity as a percentage of the theoretical maximum symptom severity during the treatment period was lower for levocabastine than for sodium cromoglycate (p = 0.06) or placebo (p = 0.004) for the severest nasal symptom (35% versus 47% and 76%), sneezing (the most frequent symptom) (27% versus 42% and 67%), and itchy nose (18% versus 37% and 67%).

Scratchy


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by scratches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
  • (2) All round Europe there have been political earthquakes in a volatile anti-politics age: the surprise is that Britain’s scratchy, irascible electorate hasn’t expressed its underlying anger that ordinary people paid the price for the bankers’ crash.
  • (3) Joseph Morpurgo's solo hour starts with scratchy old American TV footage.
  • (4) But as expected, the scratchy blankets are covered in hairs, the food is poor and the bathroom horrible (we queue to clean our teeth at the one working tap while a man washes his feet at it).
  • (5) And they took me into a theatre, and I saw this scratchy, black and white duke with no sound and a terrible track and all this camera noise of a movie that lasted three and a half hours at that time or something, and everybody was speaking a different language.
  • (6) Hard and scratchy foods also are consumed frequently.
  • (7) By setting aside the past, this was the day Miliband took full command of his party, a shadow cabinet behind him no longer scratchy with a few doubters.
  • (8) Dryness was reported more frequently than the symptoms scratchy and watery (p less than 0.001).
  • (9) Three months later, Stern was holding a conference call with reporters on a scratchy phone line from Havana.
  • (10) In a scratchy first half it took 25 minutes for Argentina to create a chance, Higuaín heading over from Messi’s whipped free-kick, but it was the Swiss who had the better opening two minutes later, Granit Xhaka shooting low but straight at Sergio Romero from a Shaqiri cutback.
  • (11) In his scratchy address, the then-head of News Corp in Europe and Asia laid into the BBCarguing: "The scope of its activities and ambitions is chilling."
  • (12) One aspect of England's scratchy record in World Cup penalty shoot-outs since they won the trophy in 1966 perhaps doesn't require a knowledge of high-level mathematics.
  • (13) What has been happening in West Everton this morning – this scritchy-scratchy Vivaldi – is more than just a music workshop.
  • (14) Serosis, sweating, scratchy clothes, allergy, infection, scratching, allergic contact dermatitis, anxiety, and coexisting disease are potential flare factors.
  • (15) Mourinho spoke about the importance of practising the transitions from attack to defence and defence to attack, and introduced to public consciousness the concept of “resting on the ball”, passing it around at the back to give players time to recuperate, but his football was scratchy and, frankly, a little dull.
  • (16) He even says "I'm killing indie rap" at one point, and it's true: with his mellow flow and lyrics about his tough street life over scratchy and hissy beats from Doom, Dilla and DJ Premier – which were themselves based on ancient crate-dusty soul and jazz vinyl samples – Nehru is the anti-Earl Sweatshirt .
  • (17) Updated at 3.34pm BST 3.19pm BST 68th over: England 157-6 (Ali 51, Prior 8) Prasad returns, and engages Ali's bat more than Eranga, but he's right on top of things, playing the ball almost from in the crease; though this has been a slow innings, it's not been a scratchy one; he's played very few false shots.
  • (18) Milton's announcement about the consultation came towards the end of a scratchy debate in which Dorries said Cameron had initially encouraged her.
  • (19) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
  • (20) The child with no complaints other than discharge probably has a conjunctivitis, while the child with photophobia and a scratchy sensation should make one search for either a foreign body or a corneal problem.

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