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Origin of psora
1675–85; < Latin psōra < Greek psṓra itch
Example Sentences
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The next miasmatic generator is sycosis, or the disposition to warty excrescences; but this source of disease Hahnemann does not consider so prolific as syphilis, or his favourite psora.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Thus man has not the psora, or itch—the disease does not properly belong to him; the parasite which engenders it is not bred in him, it is always transmitted to him by animals.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
Nor did the ancients consider their psora as our itch.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The rock is on the east bank; it is a shelf of granite, covered with psora, cladonia, and other lichens.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
We saw on the summit of the Peak no trace of psora, lecidea, or other cryptogamous plants; no insect fluttered in the air.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
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