Paresthesia

Word PARESTHESIA
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What do we mean by paresthesia?

A skin sensation, such as burning, prickling, itching, or tingling, with no apparent physical cause. noun

See paræsthesia. noun

A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause. noun

Abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage noun

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The word "paresthesia" in example sentences

They also suffer from swollen red hands, paresthesia, and leg pain for those whose legs were shackled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As explained above, paresthesia often results that includes loss of feeling, weakness, and pain in the back, arms, wrists, shoulders and neck - the entire upper body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his affidavit, he said soldiers cuffed his hands behind his back so tightly that any hand movement tightened his restraint more, causing pain and producing paresthesia (an abnormal tingling or pricking feeling the result of pressure on or damage to peripheral nerves). ❋ Unknown (2010)

After six hours, he experienced paresthesia throughout his body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As a result, he has lower back pain and paresthesia in both palms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I figured that, once again, he had it on vibrate and, as has become typical lately, assumed it was the paresthesia in his hip rendering that tingling pain down his leg that he often confuses with his cell phone's vibration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Look at "Nervous Systems" which reads "Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute scloerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS); febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had never heard of this, but a quick Google search landed me on "Wrongdiagnosis. com" which added a new word to my vocabulary: paresthesia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Overdoses cause hyperkalemia which can lead to paresthesia, cardiac conduction blocks, fibrillation and arrhythmias. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This temporary paresthesia, or "pins and needles," happens when sustained pressure is placed on a nerve and temporarily damages it, explains Dr. Audrey Penn, deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And not from transient paresthesia evoked by the expectation of danger, brought on by the bite of an irradiated arachnid. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And of course the toad had a slew of pharmacologically active compounds, all topically active, some of which might cause severe hypertension, cyanosis, and paresthesia as well as behavioral changes marked by delirium and a confused state of sham rage. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Pressure on the nerves is commoner, and affects the eighth cervical and first thoracic nerves, causing paralysis of the muscles they supply, and neuralgic pains and paresthesia in the area of skin to which they are distributed: no oculopupillary changes are to be found. ❋ Unknown (1918)

According to the same authority, Wernich has called attention to paresthesia of the sense of taste after the employment of morphin, which, according to his observation, is particularly prone to supervene in patients who are much reduced and in persons otherwise healthy who have suffered from prolonged inanition. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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