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Definition of Formication
1. Noun. Hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines.
Definition of Formication
1. n. A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Definition of Formication
1. Noun. An abnormal skin sensation similar to that of insects crawling over or within the skin; a tactile hallucination involving such a sensation. A common side-effect of substance abuse, it can also be experienced with high fever, menopause, skin cancer, diabetic neuropathy, or herpes zoster. ¹
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Medical Definition of Formication
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Formication
Literary usage of Formication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"formication, with a sense as if mice were creeping under the skin,1".—formication
on the face, gum, and other parts of the body".—[980. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"... bat more frequently tingling, formication, or numbness, especially in the
extremities. Cutaneous sensibility is sometimes excessive. ..."
3. A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homoeopathy by Timothy Field Allen (1891)
"Insensibility of the fingers aud toes, with coldness. and formication ...
formication under the skin. Fever: Predominating coldness, cold dry skin, ..."
4. Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Amos Gerald Hull, Frederick Greenwood Snelling (1885)
"Numb feeling of the calf.—Burning in the feet.—Stinging burning of the
toes.—°Erysipelatous peeling off and itching of the feet. °formication in the feet. ..."
5. Text-book of Homeopathic Materia Medica by George Royal (1920)
"Useful for spinal irritation, with heat and sensitiveness; for locomotor ataxia
with burning in the spine, lightning-like pains, formication and exhaustion; ..."
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