Medical Definition of Paresthetic
1. Relating to or marked by paresthesia; denoting numbness and tingling in an extremity which usually occurs on the resumption of the blood flow to a nerve following temporary pressure or mild injury. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paresthetic
Literary usage of Paresthetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recognition & Management of Pesticide Poisoning by Donald P. Morgan (1989)
"Not all pyrethroids cause a marked paresthetic reaction: it is prominent ...
The paresthetic reaction is not allergic in nature: sensitization does not ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1903)
"Frequent attacks of right hemiplegia transient in character, also paresthetic
disturbances on the same side. During the attacks the speech would also be ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"paresthetic sensory disturbances continued, and he asserted that the mattress
became very hot; occasionally he was allowed to be up and about, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Just below the patella, within the area paresthetic to the pin scratch, was a
small oval area of anesthesia. There was a small strip about 1 to 2 cm. wide ..."
5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1901)
"The forefinger was not noticed to twitch except once or twice until six months
after the operation, though paresthetic attacks were frequent. ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1909)
"Among them we find a double element which may be expressed in two words: paresthetic
asthenia, meaning essentially that a given act is weakly executed, ..."
7. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... of the skin leading to stimulation of the temperature nerve endings, or they
may be paresthetic disturbances in the domain of the temperature sense. ..."
8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"paresthetic sensory disturbances continued, and he asserted that the mattress
became very hot; occasionally he was allowed to be up and about, ..."
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