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Definition: Paresthesia |
ParesthesiaNoun1. 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. |
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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. | |
Synonym: ParesthesiaSynonym: paraesthesia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Paresthesia |
| English words defined with "paresthesia": cervical disc syndrome, cervical root syndrome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "paresthesia": Ciguatoxin ♦ Tetrodotoxin. (references) |
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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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paresthesia | 165 |
paresthesia toe | 5 |
cause paresthesia | 4 |
forum neurology paresthesia | 3 |
facial paresthesia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 parestesia (paraesthesia). (various references) parestesia (dysaesthesia, dysesthesia, paraesthesia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "paresthesia": paresthesias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. . ... - .... . ... .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r e s t h e s i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0065 0073 0074 0068 0065 0073 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067847185867471857567 |
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