pseudaesthesia
See also: pseudæsthesia
English
Alternative forms
- pseudæsthesia
- pseudesthesia
Etymology
pseudo- + aesthesia
Noun
pseudaesthesia (uncountable)
- (medicine) phantom pain, false or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis and phantom limb.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pseudaesthesia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)