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formication

[fawr-mi-kay-shuhn] / ˌfɔr mɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Marked digital formication existed, but the arthritic pains were not so severe as in ordinary cases.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

The initial indications of the disease were cutaneous itching, tingling and formication, which gave place to actual loss of cutaneous sensation, first observed in the extremities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

Frequently there are also peculiar skin sensations, which usually approach formication in type, and these, like the pains, are apt to shift with rapidity from one part of the body to another.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

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 Alexis Thomson


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