Word.ws English Dictionary

dermatographia

dermatographia noun: a skin disorder in which the skin becomes raised and inflamed when stroked, scratched or rubbed.

Noun

dermatographia (uncountable)

  1. A skin disorder in which the skin becomes raised and inflamed when stroked, scratched or rubbed.

Synonyms of dermatographia

Questions about dermatographia

What does dermatographia mean?
Dermatographia means a skin disorder in which the skin becomes raised and inflamed when stroked, scratched or rubbed.
What part of speech is dermatographia?
Dermatographia is a noun.

Words near dermatographia in the dictionary

  1. dermatoglyph
  2. dermatoglyphic
  3. dermatoglyphics
  4. dermatoglyphs
  5. dermatograph
  6. dermatographia
  7. dermatographic
  8. dermatographism
  9. dermatographs
  10. dermatography
  11. dermatoheliosis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dermatographia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dermatographia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dermatographia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.