formication
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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
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 George Henry Makins
Sensation of formication in the calves of the legs.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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
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
