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Paresthesia

Definition: Paresthesia

Paresthesia

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Paresthesia

DomainDefinitions

Health

Subjective cutaneous sensations (e.g., cold, warmth, tingling, pressure, etc.) that are experienced spontaneously in the absence of stimulation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Paresthesia

Synonym: paraesthesia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Paresthesia

English words defined with "paresthesia": cervical disc syndrome, cervical root syndrome. (references)
Specialty definitions using "paresthesia": CiguatoxinTetrodotoxin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Paresthesia

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Non-Fiction Usage: Paresthesia

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Health

Physicians may order additional tests depending on the suspected cause of the paresthesia. (references)

The appropriate treatment for paresthesia depends on accurate diagnosis of the underlying cause. (references)

For some people, however, paresthesia can become a chronic condition caused by an underlying disorder. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paresthesia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

paresthesia

165

paresthesia toe

5

cause paresthesia

4

forum neurology paresthesia

3

facial paresthesia

2
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Modern Translations: Paresthesia

Language Translations for "paresthesia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

paraestesi (paraesthesia). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

paresthesie (paraesthesia). (various references)

   

French

  

paresthésie (paraesthesia), paraesthésie (paraesthesia). (various references)

   

German

  

Paraesthesie (paraesthesia). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραισθησία (paraesthesia), παραίσθηση (delusion, hallucination, illusion, paraesthesia). (various references)

   

Italian

  

parestesia (paraesthesia). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aresthesiapay

   

Portuguese

  

parestesia (paraesthesia). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parestesia (dysaesthesia, dysesthesia, paraesthesia). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Paresthesia

Derivations

Words beginning with "paresthesia": paresthesias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Paresthesia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: aphaeresis.

-2 letters: apheresis, asperates, aspirates, earthpeas, parasites, pharisees, satrapies, separates, spheriest, therapies.

-3 letters: apathies, asperate, aspirate, asterias, atresias, earthpea, epitases, esthesia, harpists, hearties, heisters, hetaeras, hetairas, hipsters, parasite, parietes, parishes, pastries, perishes, pharisee, piasters, piastres, preheats, raspiest, reshapes, respites, separate, septaria, seriates, sharpest, sharpies, spiraeas, starship, steepish, traipses, trapeses, triphase.

-4 letters: aerates, aeriest, aethers, aperies, apheses, aphesis, apteria, aristae, aristas, ashiest, asperse, aspires, asteria, atresia, easiest, easters, esprits, harpies, harpist, hastier, hearses, heaters, heiress, heister, hessite, hetaera, hetaira, hipster, pareses, paresis, pariahs, parises, parties, pasters, pastier, pasties, patsies, peatier, persist, pesetas, pesters, pestier, petsais, phrases, piaster, piastre, pirates, praises, preheat, presets, priests, prithee, raphias, rapists, rashest, raspish, reheats, repasts, repeats, reseats, reshape, reships, resites, respite, retapes, sarapes, satires, satraps, searest, seaters, serapes, seraphs, seriate, shapers, sharpie, sherpas, spahees, sparest, spathes, spheres, spiraea, spireas, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stripes, tapises, tarsias, teasers, tephras, tessera, threaps, threeps, traipse, trashes.

-5 letters: aerate, aeries, aether, airest, airths, aretes, arhats, arises, arista, ashier, aspers, aspire, aspish, assert, asters, earths, easier, easies, easter, eaters, either, erases, espies, esprit, esters, etapes, ethers, haeres, harass, hastes, haters, hearse, hearts, heater, heists, hereat, herpes, hisser, paisas, pariah, paries, parish, parses, pashas, pashes, passee, passer, pastas, paster, pastes, pastie, pastis, paters, peases, peises, pereia, perish, perses, peseta, pester, peters, petsai, phases, phasis, phrase, pietas, pirate, pishes, pisser, pistes, praise, prases, prates, preset, prests, priest, prises, raises, raphae, raphes, raphia, raphis, rapist, rashes, reatas, reests, reheat, repass, repast, repeat, reseat, resets, reshes, reship, resist, resite, retape, reties, riatas, ripest, saithe, sarape, sarees, satire, satrap, seater, seiser, sepias, serais, serape, seraph, serest, series, shaper, shapes, shares, sharps, shears, sheers, sheets, sherpa, shiers, shiest, shires, shirts, siesta, sirees, sister, sistra, sitars, spahee, spahis, spaits, spares, sparse, spates, spathe, spears, speers, speirs, speise, sphere, spiers, spirea, spires, spirts, spites, sprats, sprees, sprite, sprits, stairs, stapes, staphs, stares, steeps, steers, steres, stipes, stirps, straps, streps, striae, stripe, strips, tapers, tapirs, tarsia, tassie, teaser, teases, tephra, terais, teraph, theirs, theres, theses, thesis, threap, threep, threes, thrips, tiaras, trapes, tripes.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: paraesthesia, paresthesias.

 

+2 letters: laureateships, paraesthesias, phalansteries.

 

+3 letters: headmastership, hyperaesthesia, hyperparasites.

 

+4 letters: headmasterships, hyperaesthesias.

 

+5 letters: archiepiscopates, blepharoplasties.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Paresthesia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 72 65 73 74 68 65 73 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0072 0065 0073 0074 0068 0065 0073 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5067847185867471857567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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