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n. - Hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin.

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  • Check out the post on "formication". posted by sydney on
  • The early return of sensation, even if modified in acuteness, was always a very hopeful sign; also the production of formication in the area of distribution of the nerve...
  • 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...
  • A fortnight later this pain still persisted; there was lowered sensation in the ulnar area with formication, also lowered sensation in the internal cutaneous area of...
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