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urtication|ɜːtɪˈkeɪʃən|
[a. med.L. ūrtīcātiōn-, ūrtīcātio, n. of action f. ūrtīcāre to urticate. Cf. F. urtication, It. orticazione, Pg. urtic-, urtigação.]
1. The action or function of urticating or stinging like or as a nettle; a stinging operation.
1655Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. v. §3. 253 A body may be said to be lustful though it be asleep, or eating, without the sense of actual urtications and violence, by reason of its constitution. 1858Lewes Sea-side Stud. 146 Certain minute organs found in all Polypes, and variously styled ‘thread-capsules’, ‘filiferous capsules’, or urticating cells, are organs of urtication or stinging. Ibid. 148 Here, then, we have the organ, without any corresponding function; ‘urticating cells’, but no urtication!
b. A burning or pricking sensation suggestive of stinging with nettles.
1859Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 94 The mucus which produces the well-known urtication of the human skin. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 483 So that.. urtication..may be excited in them [i.e. elements of a certain eruption] by mechanical irritation or heat.
2. The flogging or pricking of a benumbed part or paralytic limb with green nettles, so as to restore sensation, etc.
1837J. G. Millingen Curios. Med. Exper. II. 55 A case of obstinate lethargy was cured..by repeated urtication of the whole body. 1870J. G. Bertram Flagellation xxii. 207 Elidœus Paduanus recommends whipping with nettles, or urtication,..for assisting the development of the eruption in exanthematic diseases. 1873M. Collins Miranda III. 206 Urtication is the best cure for rheumatism. |