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your skin's tiny dictator, demanding obedience the instant you try to ignore it
means An uncomfortable, tickling sensation on the skin that makes you want to scratch, or by extension a restless craving to do something.
from From Old English giccan, 'to itch,' a verb that wriggled its way through the Germanic family — it has cousins in German jucken and Dutch jeuken, all describing that same maddening prickle. The figurative sense of 'a nagging desire' (as in 'the seven-year itch') came later, the body's literal nuisance lending its name to the mind's.
- own nerves
- Itch travels on dedicated nerves, separate from pain
- contagious
- Watching someone scratch can make you itch too
- scratch trick
- Scratching replaces itch with mild pain to fool the brain
- phantom itch
- Amputees can itch in limbs that no longer exist
- deep word
- Itch comes from Old English giccan, to tickle
scabies — parasitic mite infection affecting 200 million people globally, causing intense itching
athlete's foot — fungal infection of feet causing severe itching, accounts for 70% of fungal skin infections
urticaria — hives condition affecting 20% of population at some point, causing intense itching and welts