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
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
The thighs begin to struggle, as if formication was going on in the muscles.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
The early return of sensation, even if modified in acuteness, was always a very hopeful sign; also the production of formication in the area of distribution of the nerve on manipulation of the injured spot.
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
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