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noun a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
originFrom Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0