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 thighs begin to struggle, as if formication was going on in the muscles.

From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

But sooner or later peripheral neuritis develops, usually beginning with sensory disturbances, tingling, numbness, formication and occasionally cutaneous anaesthesia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

Sensation of formication in the calves of the legs.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

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