Definitions for scabies

scabies sca·bies

Spelling: [skey-beez, -bee-eez]
IPA: /ˈskeɪ biz, -biˌiz/

Scabies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in scabies (abceiss).

Definitions for scabies

noun

  1. 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 (def 10), mange.

Origin of scabies

1350-1400; Middle English Latin scabiēs roughness, the itch, derivative of scabere to scratch, scrape; cognate with shave

Examples for 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.

Itch′iness; Itch′-mite, a mite which burrows in the skin, causing itch or scabies.

Kamala is also used externally by the natives of India in various skin complaints, particularly in scabies.

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

scabies is an itching skin disease, which it takes at least a week to cure.

Mercury is used for chronic and syphilitic laryngitis and pharyngitis; sulphur for scabies and other skin diseases.

The Guinea pig, like the rabbit, suffers from scabies and coccidiosis.

Cases of erysipelas, scarlatina, scabies, and diphtheria were met with in small numbers.

As for Sulphur, "the common people have long used it as an ointment" for scabies.

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

Word Value for scabies
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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