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Medical dictionary. 2011.
formication sign
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formication — A form of paresthesia or tactile hallucination; a sensation as if small insects are creeping under the skin. [L. formica, ant] * * * for·mi·ca·tion .fȯr mə kā shən n an abnormal sensation resembling that made by insects creeping in or on the… … Medical dictionary
Magnan sign — formication … Medical dictionary
Tinel-Hoffmann sign — Also known as Tinel s sign, Tinel s sign of formication, Tinel s symptom, and Hoffmann Tinel sign. The eponym Tinel Hoffmann sign refers to the French neurologist Jules Tinel (18791952), and the German physiologist Paul Hoffmann (1884 1962),… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Medical sign — A medical sign is an objective[1] indication of some medical fact or characteristic that may be detected by a physician during a physical examination of a patient.[2] Signs may have no meaning for, and can even go unnoticed by, the patient, but… … Wikipedia
Magnan's sign — Also known as Magnan Saury s sign and cocaine bugs. The eponym Magnan s sign refers to the French alienist Jacques Joseph Valentin Magnan (1835 1916), who described the concomitant phenomenon in 1889 in a paper co authored by a pupil named… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Magnan movement sign — Mag·nan movement, sign (mah nyahґ) [Valentin Jacques Joseph Magnan, French psychiatrist, 1835–1916] see under movement and see formication … Medical dictionary
Tinel sign — a tingling sensation in the distal end of a limb when percussion is made over the site of a divided nerve. It indicates a partial lesion or the beginning regeneration of the nerve. Called also DTP s., formication s., and distal tingling on… … Medical dictionary
formicative hallucination — Also referred to as formication, dermatozoic hallucination, and insect hallucination. The terms formication and formicative hallucination are indebted to the Latin noun formica, which means ant. All of the above four terms are used more or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
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