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formication

[ fawr-mi-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin.


formication

/ ˌɔːɪˈɪʃə /

noun

  1. a sensation of insects crawling on the skin; symptom of a nerve disorder
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of formication1

1700–10; < Latin (Pliny) ڴǰīپō-, stem of ڴǰīپō a sensation that ants are crawling on one's skin, equivalent to ڴǰ ( re ) to have such a sensation (verbal derivative of ڴǰī ant) + -پō- -tion
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Example Sentences

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

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Sensation of formication in the calves of the legs.

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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.

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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.

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

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