urticaria
UK/ˌɜːtɪˈkɛəɹi.ə//ˌɜɹtɪˈkɛəɹi.ə/
urticaria noun: itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
Noun
urticaria (countable and uncountable, plural urticarias)
- Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
- "And the cramps when my body - like a badly articulated skeleton - would all get twisted into one rigid tangle! But now, except some dyspepsia and urticaria of the palms, I am free from pain."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
- So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- hives, nettle-rash
urticaria meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati and Tagalog
urticaria in Tamil
- தோல் முடிச்சு வீக்கங்கள், அரிப்புத்தோல், தடிப்புச்சொறி, தோல் அரிப்பு, தோல் அரிப்புத் தடிப்பு, தடிப்புச் சொறி
urticaria in Telugu
- medical condition
- కుక్కముండ్లు kukkamuṇḍlu
urticaria in Gujarati
- medical condition
- શીતપિત્ત śītpitt
urticaria in Tagalog
- medical condition
- tagulabay
More languagesFewer languages
- urticaria in Persian
- کهیر kahir, بشترم boštaram
- urticaria in Thai
- ลมพิษ lom-pít
- urticaria in Vietnamese
- mề đay, phong ngứa
Synonyms of urticaria
Forms of urticaria
| plural | urticarias |
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Origin of urticaria
Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) + -āria.
Words formed from urticaria
Phrases with urticaria
Words that rhyme with urticaria
- area
- Carpentaria
- Hilaria
- Hungaria
- laminaria
- malaria
- rosaria
- sanguinaria
- sigillaria
- -aria
- adularia
- alfilaria
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Anastenaria
- angaria
- antimalaria
- aquaria
- araucaria
- armillaria
- auricularia
- balistraria
- baria
- Bavaria
- Bedeque and Area
- bipinnaria
- brachiaria
- brachiolaria
- Bulgaria
- Caffraria
- calceolaria
- calvaria
- Caria
- carinaria
- cephalaria
- cercaria
- churrascaria
- cnidaria
- congiaria
- convallaria
- crotalaria
- cusparia
- dataria
- dirofilaria
- filaria
- fritillaria
- globularia
- hypobaria
- Icaria
- Kaffraria
- lacunaria
- laquearia
- ligularia
- linaria
- Lot 11 and Area
- macrofilaria
- mammillaria
- matricaria
- metacercaria
- microfilaria
- miliaria
- militaria
Questions about urticaria
- What does urticaria mean?
- Urticaria means itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
- What is urticaria in Tamil?
- Urticaria in Tamil is தோல் முடிச்சு வீக்கங்கள், அரிப்புத்தோல், தடிப்புச்சொறி. See Urticaria meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is urticaria?
- Urticaria is a noun.
- How do you pronounce urticaria?
- Urticaria is pronounced /ˌɜɹtɪˈkɛəɹi.ə/ (US).
- What is the plural of urticaria?
- The plural of urticaria is urticarias.
Words near urticaria in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: urticaria (page history and authors); urticaria (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.
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