formication

How To Use formication In A Sentence

• Check out the post on "formication". posted by sydney on Medpundit
• I dozed until the ants found me out, when, unable to lie quiet under the formication, I got up and passed hours walking up and down till I was so tired that I almost fell asleep walking; then I lay down again and slept for an hour, but the cold and the ants awoke me again, and I spent the rest of the night by the camp-fire. The Autobiography of a Journalist
• The same author speaks of a gentleman under treatment for stricture who could not eat figs without experiencing the most unpleasant formication of the palate and fauces. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• No change except a deepening of the anæsthesia, and the development of formication on manipulation of the wound occurred, and at the end of three weeks the nerve was exposed (Mr. Watson), and it was found that Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
• Here the symptoms were epileptic seizures, spastic movements, dance-like twitching, and formication.
• My understanding is that the word ‘formication’ is used by doctors to imply an imaginary itching.
• The sores on the arms are from something called ‘formication’.
• My limited knowledge tells me it could be connected to the onset of menopause - formication.
• The name for this sensation is formication (with an ‘m’).
• When in a position allowing of direct examination, the contused portion of the nerve sometimes developed a palpable fusiform thickening, manipulation of which might give rise to formication in the area of distribution -- a favourable prognostic sign. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre