Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Imaginary or false feeling; imaginary sense of touch in organs that have been removed, as when pain is felt as if in the fingers or toes of an amputated limb. Also spelled
pseudesthesia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.
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- noun medicine False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in
hypochondriasis andphantom limb .
Etymologies
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pseudo- + aesthesia
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