paresthesia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsparaesthesia

   Broadersymptom

   Narrowerformication

Other forms of paresthesia

plural

paresthesias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paresthesia

What does paresthesia mean?

paresthesia means "abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage".

How many syllables are in paresthesia?

paresthesia has 5 syllables: pa-res-the-si-a. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for paresthesia?

Close synonyms include paraesthesia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paresthesia a common word?

paresthesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.