urticaria

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɝ.tɪˈkɛɹ.i.ə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɜː.tɪˈkɛə.ɹi.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiə

urticaria (countable and uncountable, plural urticarias)

1. (pathology) Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
   • 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:

     "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."

   • 2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic‎:

     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.

• hives
• nettle-rash

urtīca +‎ -āria

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ur.tiːˈkaː.ri.a/, [ʊrt̪iːˈkäːriä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ur.tiˈka.ri.a/, [urt̪iˈkäːriä]

urtīcāria f (genitive urtīcāriae); first declension

1. (New Latin) urticaria

First-declension noun.

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

• IPA^(key): /uɾtiˈkaɾja/ [uɾ.t̪iˈka.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: ur‧ti‧ca‧ria

urticaria f (plural urticarias)

1. urticaria

• “urticaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014