Crossword-Solution: PSORA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Psora | n. | A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PSORA | anagram | ASPRO, OPARS, PAROS, PRAOS, PROAS, PROSA, ROPAS, ROSPA, SAPOR, SAPRO, SOPRA |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PSORA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Skin ailment | 5 answers |
| skin disease | 8 answers |
| Itch | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAZCEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PSORA (5)
You don't suppose Adam had the cutaneous unpleasantness politely called psora, do you? --Hardly,--I answered.--He must have been a walking hospital if he carried all the maladies about him which have plagued his descendants.
Seven eighths at least of all chronic diseases are produced by the existence in the system of that infectious disorder known in the language of science by the appellation of PSORA, but to the less refined portion of the community by the name of ITCH.
The doctrine of the origin of most chronic diseases in Psora, notwithstanding Hahnemann says it cost him twelve years of study and research to establish the fact and its practical consequences, has met with great neglect and even opposition from very many of his own disciples.
And allowing both these to be true, neither has the remotest affinity to the third new doctrine, that which declares seven eighths of all chronic diseases to be owing to Psora.
The third doctrine, that Psora, the other name of which you remember, is the cause of the great majority of chronic diseases, is a startling one, to say the least.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1986).