swimmer's itch

1. 1.

   a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes

   Synonymsschistosome dermatitis

   Broaderdermatitis

   homo · animal

Questions about swimmer's itch

What does swimmer's itch mean?

swimmer's itch means "a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes".

What is another word for swimmer's itch?

Close synonyms include schistosome dermatitis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swimmer's itch a common word?

swimmer's itch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.