acroparaesthesiaacroparesthesian.
/ˌakrə(ʊ)ˌparəsˈθiːzɪə/, /ˌakrə(ʊ)ˌparəsˈθiːʒə/, U.S. /ˌækrəˌpɛrəsˈθiʒ(i)ə/, /ˌækrəˌpɛrəsˈθiziə/ Medicine.
Paraesthesia of the extremities, esp. the hands and feet; an instance of this.
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formication1707
horripilation1776–84
pseudaesthesia1822
paraesthesia1848
hyperaesthesia1849
paraesthesis1857
phantom limb1871
hemianaesthesia1878
allochiria1881
polyaesthesia1888
allaesthesia1890
thermo-anaesthesia1890
acroparaesthesia1892
allachaesthesia1894
thermaesthesia1899
trichaesthesia1902
hypoaesthesia1906
thermo-aesthesia1909
1892 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy 7 639 L. is inclined to consider the long-lasting disturbances of sensibility, often continuing for years, as exhaustion-neuroses occurring after periods of excessive work and analogous to the acroparæsthesia of Fr. Schultze.
1908 Practitioner Aug. 298 Stengel discusses..cases in which numbness, tingling, burning, and other symptoms..known collectively as ‘acroparaesthesia’, occur in elderly persons who have different degrees of arterio-sclerosis.
1957 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Mar. 731/1 Fifty-three patients..were diagnosed consecutively as suffering from acroparaesthesiae or compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel.
2010 Progress Cardiovascular Dis. 52 328/1 It typically affects the extremities (acroparesthesia) and is often described as ‘burning’ in character.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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