pseudaesthesia

See also: pseudæsthesia

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ aesthesia

Noun

pseudaesthesia (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) phantom pain, false or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis and phantom limb.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pseudaesthesia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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