Magnan sign
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Magnan's sign — is a clinical sign in which people with cocaine addiction experience paraesthesia which feels like a constantly moving foreign body, such as fine sand or powder, under the skin.[1] The sign is named after Valentin Magnan. External links Magnan s… … 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
Sign — Any abnormality that indicates a disease process, such as a change in appearance, sensation, or function, that is observed by a physician when evaluating a patient. * * * 1. Any abnormality indicative of disease, discoverable on examination of… … Medical dictionary
Magnan-Saury's sign — see Magnan s sign … 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
Magnan — Valentin J.J., Paris psychiatrist, 1835–1916. See M. trombone movement, M. sign … Medical dictionary
Valentin Magnan — (1835 1916) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Perpignan. He studied medicine in Lyon and Paris, where he was a student of Jules Baillarger (1809 1890) and Jean Pierre Falret (1794 1870). From 1867 until the end of his career he was… … Wikipedia
Street sign theft — occurs when street signs are stolen, often to be used as decorations, but also sometimes to avoid obeying the law by claiming later the sign was not there.Fact|date=January 2008 Although the theft often seems arbitrary, unusual or amusing signs… … Wikipedia
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
cocaine bugs — Also known as Magnan s sign and Magnan Saury s sign. All three terms refer to a * tactile hallucination consisting of a crawling foreign body beneath or upon the skin that is associated with the chronic use of cocaine. Except for their… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
