psoriasis

From Late Latin psōriasis (“mange, scurvy, psoriasis”), from Koine Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis: forming nouns of action & medical disorders”). Cognate with psora.

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹaɪ.əsɪs/, Rhymes: -aɪəsɪs

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /sɵrɪˈjæsɪs/, /sɵˈraj(ə)sɪs/

psoriasis (countable and uncountable, plural psoriases)

1. (pathology) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 11:

     He suffers from a skin complaint, psoriasis, which has rendered his hands scaly, hard and red.

• lepra (obsolete)

• psora

From Ancient Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpsoriɑsis/, [ˈps̠o̞riˌɑ̝s̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑsis
• Syllabification^(key): pso‧ri‧a‧sis
• Hyphenation^(key): pso‧ria‧sis

psoriasis

1. (medicine) psoriasis

• psoriaasi
• hilsetystauti

• “psoriasis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Learned borrowing from Late Latin psōriasis (“mange, scurvy, psoriasis”), from Koine Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis: forming nouns of action & medical disorders”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pəsoriˈasis/ [pə.so.riˈa.sɪs]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Syllabification: pso‧ri‧a‧sis

psoriasis (uncountable)

1. (dermatology, pathology) psoriasis

• “psoriasis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “action, process”).

• IPA^(key): /soˈɾjasis/ [soˈɾja.sis]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Syllabification: pso‧ria‧sis

psoriasis f (plural psoriasis)

1. (dermatology) psoriasis

• “psoriasis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025