urticaria
MONDO:0005492Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names urticaria yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A vascular reaction of the skin characterized by erythema and wheal formation due to localized increase of vascular permeability. The causative mechanism may be allergy, infection, or stress.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005492), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (14)
- allergic urticaria
- angioedema
- autoimmune urticaria
- chronic urticaria
- cold urticaria
- cutaneous mastocytosis
- drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms
- idiopathic urticaria
- Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
- papular urticaria
- physical urticaria
- pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy
- urticaria, aquagenic
- urticaria, familial localized heat
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: urticaria
- Also called
- hivesurticaria (disease)