formication

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Even with oxygen, pilots may get the bends or the chokes.*Also: a man cannot whistle, and he is likely to suffer from formication �the feeling that ants are marching over his body. 43,000 Ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same author speaks of a gentleman under treatment for stricture who could not eat figs without experiencing the most unpleasant formication of the palate and fauces.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

A woman of fifty-two, married but having no children, and of negative family history, six years before the time of report showed the first symptoms of the affection, which began with formication in the finger-tips.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The gangrene, which attacks the toes, fingers, ears, or nose, is preceded by formication, numbness, and pains in the parts to be affected, and is of the dry variety.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

The track was now hard and palpable, but there was no hyperæsthesia in any area; when the track was manipulated slight formication in the hand was experienced.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry