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  • noun Alternative spelling of paresthesia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • Alkylamides that produce tingling paraesthesia activate tactile and thermal trigeminal neurons.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Alkylamides that produce tingling paraesthesia activate tactile and thermal trigeminal neurons.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Exposure to skin especially the mucous membrane have caused paraesthesia (tingling, burning sensations) caused by temporary transient effects on sensory nerves.

    5. Implementation 1997

  • Safety parameters, such as paraesthesia and increases in blood pressure and heart rate, were transient and fully reversible following drug discontinuation.

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  • PDN may present itself as a progressive build-up of unpleasant sensory symptoms including tingling (paraesthesia), burning pain, radiating pain down the legs and toes and lancinating or contact pain.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • In the study, the most common device or therapy-related adverse events that occurred during the implant phase included implant site pain (25.8 percent), paraesthesia, or a sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of the skin, (12.5 percent) and implant site infection (10.8 percent).

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • No paraesthesia legs-he loves the country unlike you and your ilk and first lady who only love it and are proud of it when they get their own way.

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  • Symptoms tachycardia: fast heart rate palpitations: sensation of pounding, beating, fluttering paraesthesia: pins and needles oedema: swelling intermittent claudication: pain in legs whilst walking rhinitis: running nose nasal discharge: snuffles, snotty nose glossitis: a sore tongue menorrhagia: heavy periods

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  • The symptoms experienced were pain and paraesthesia

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Nervous system disorders: drowsiness, paraesthesia / hypoesthesia, very rarely seizures

    Nachrichten Ticker - www.finanzen.net 2009

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