Hyperaesthesia

Word HYPERAESTHESIA
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Hyphenation ‖Hy per æs the si a
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Definitions and meanings of "Hyperaesthesia"

What do we mean by hyperaesthesia?

In pathology, excessive sensibility; exalted sensation. Also hyperesthesia, hyperæsthesis, hyperesthesis. noun

A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. noun

Alternative spelling of hyperesthesia. noun

Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense.

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The word "hyperaesthesia" in example sentences

There is another symptom, hyperaesthesia of the eye, which Binet and Féré omit; this is extremely rare among men, and with women results from local affection. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

But hyperaesthesia sometimes spreads to the upper cheek. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

The hyperaesthesia spreads in a slight degree round the eye. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

The chill and the hyperaesthesia of the eyes can be so severe that a doctor or an oculist would be consulted. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

Dyspepsia, hyperaesthesia of the intestinal tract, viscero-motor atonies and spasms, and anomalies of the secretions, whether specific like that of the gastric juice or indifferent like that of the nasal, pharyngeal, gastric, and intestinal mucus, are all of common occurrence. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

Only by lowering the excitability of the nervous system, by occupying the mind and giving strength to the child's powers of control can we effectively combat the hyperaesthesia. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

Hence bromide of potassium -- or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action -- is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds. ❋ Various (N/A)

This in connection with the pack may in many cases wisely be continued throughout the whole progress of the case, and often hastens the restoration of general nervous equilibrium by many days, removing to a very pereptible degree that _hyperaesthesia_, that exaggerated sensation of all the natural processes normally unconscious, which continues to rob the sufferer of sleep long after acute pain is lulled. ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)

The reaction from the battle-field produced a condition of hyperaesthesia in which all the theatrical values were altered. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

I should not have kept my own (as far as I did keep it) if I had not at once understood that as a scribe and speaker I too was under the most serious public obligation to keep my grip on realities; but this did not save me from a considerable degree of hyperaesthesia. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

All we have to remember is that these things are psychic in their origin, and not ignorantly confound sensation with consciousness, or hyperaesthesia with the various psychopathic faculties we have been discussing. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)

A certain delicacy of organization, together with a tendency to hyperaesthesia, is most frequently noted in the passive or direct seer; but a more robust and forceful constitution may well be allied to the positive type of seership. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)

Wagner, for neither was as sane and both suffered mortally from hyperaesthesia, the penalty of all sick genius. ❋ James Huneker (1890)

A child should never be pushed into notice, never compelled to endure caresses, never overwhelmed with kisses, which ordinarily torment him and are often the cause of sexual hyperaesthesia. ❋ Ellen Key (1887)

But overwork, poverty, and an eye-trouble produced by his observations on after-images in the retina (also a classic piece of investigation) produced in Fechner, then about thirty-eight years old, a terrific attack of nervous prostration with painful hyperaesthesia of all the functions, from which he suffered three years, cut off entirely from active life. ❋ William James (1876)

Major clinical signs included muzzle and/or head tremors (80%), aggressiveness, hyperexcitability, and/or hyperaesthesia (80%), trismus (60%), salivation (60%), vocalization (60%) and recumbency (40%). ❋ Unknown (2006)

When my lips touched her face, my grandmother’s hands quivered, a long shudder ran through her whole body, reflex perhaps, perhaps because certain affections have their hyperaesthesia which recognises through the veil of unconsciousness what they barely need senses to enable them to love. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“But, my dear cousin,” she said in response to the expression ‘adapting the surroundings,’ the meaning of which her momentary state of hyperaesthesia had enabled her to discern, “we shall save you all the trouble. ❋ Unknown (2003)

a form of hyperaesthesia and no doubt has a nervous expression, but it is not the less psychic in its origin. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)

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